Jason Sharp The Turning Centre Of A Still World

Audiophile 180glp Pressing Includes Eight 12"X12" Art Print Reproductions Of Analog Film Stills By Renowned Experimental Filmmaker Daïchi Saïto. The First Purely Solo Record By Jason Sharp - Where Every Sound Is Created By His Saxophone, Breath, Heartbeat & Modular Synthesis Rig. Sharp's Customized Electroacoustic Biofeedback System Utilizes A Heart Monitor To Turn His Pulse Into Signal & Tempo Responsively Synthesized In Real Time During Peformance & Recording. Produced By Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Matana Roberts, Suuns, Big | Brave, Eric Chenaux, Jerusalem In My Heart). For Fans Of Fennesz, Christina Vantzou, Tim Hecker, Klaus Schulze, Ben Frost, Gas, Windy & Carl, Colin Stetson.Montréal Saxophonist And Electroacoustic Composer Jason Sharp Presents His Third Album On Constellation. The Turning Centre Of A Still World Is Sharp's First Purely Solo Recordand His Most Lucid, Poignant, Integral Work To Date. Following Two Acclaimed Albums Composed Around Particular Collaborators And Guest Players, Sharp Conceived His Third As An Interplay Strictly Bounded By His Own Body, His Acoustic Instrument, And His Evolving Bespoke Electronic System. The Turning Centre... Is A Singular Sonic Exploration Of Human Machine Calibration, Interaction, Expression And Biofeedback. Using Saxophones, Foot-Controlled Bass Pedals, And His Own Pulse - Patched Through A Heart Monitor Routed To Variegated Signal Paths That Trigger Modular Synthesizers And Samplers - Sharp Paints With Organic Waves Of Glistening Synthesis, Pink Noise Anddigitalia. Melodic Strokes And Harmonic Shapes Ripple And Crest Across Ever-Shifting Seas, Through An Inclement Cycle From Dawn To Dusk. The Album's Six Main Movements Navigatea World Where Placid Surfaces Are Always Roiled And Disquieted By A Deeper Inexorable Gyre: The Gravitational Pull And Tidal Perpetuity Of Our Bodies Made Of Water, Buffeted Byterrestrial Atmospheric Pressures, Wrung Out By Emotions, Coursing With Blood, Sustained By Breath, Inescapably Yearning For And Returning To Ground Aga...