Reviews of Compressions & Rarefactions [12k1083]

As time in time, as personal time, as a moving stoppage, as Morton Feldman time. As an invitation to float with time…

A very impressive collection, to say the least.

His extremely long pieces are experimental arrangements in contingency.

In what is probably his most complete and complex work, Kirschner reworks the aesthetic and ontological boundaries between contemporary research and (post-) classicism, in a jewel where the two really seem to achieve a common matrix.

L’homme de Brooklyn n’a eu de cesse de sublimer les multiples richesses du minimalisme.

High compositions in his own idiom.

Kenneth Kirschner is one of those artists who likes to transport listeners to strange landscapes.

Moi, je suis dans l’un et dans l’autre en même temps, mais ma tête fait la navette.

I might say my very first impression, as I maybe felt the some fascination that a baby could experience inside a big and hidden lab of clock repairer, where variation of single gears or steps gradually mutate the “scansion” and the perception of time.

den betörend-hypnotischen Sog…

l’aspect joliment mélodique comme le caractère…

Be prepared to let go of all your preconceptions about musical composition and most importantly the notion of time!

Because of this fragility, I never feel comfortable pushing Compressions And Rarefactions to the back of my consciousness. I can’t leave it unattended.

I think Kenneth and I think a lot about the same things. Time, space, repetition, pattern, the very very big and the very very small.

Tthousands of particles that are concentrated in one place and then separated into millions of vectors, discreet acoustic and digital reverberation in a constant and beautiful fragmentation.

Kirschner created five excellent pieces of music that one can find in that area between electronic music and modern classical music.