subject of the drone

robin purves

Ltd Edition 32 page zine with FREE download featuring the essay by ROBIN PURVES in which he discusses 4 pieces of drone music through time, starting with the composer La Monte Young's "Trio For Strings", Joan La Barbara’s Voice Piece: One Note Internal Resonance Investigation; ‘Bass Pulse in Open Air’ in Floating Frequencies: Intuitive Synthesis III – Phase Two by Eleh; and Keiji Haino’s ‘Wisdom That Will Bless I, Who Live in the Spiral Joy Born at the Utter End of a Black Prayer’. "..in discussing these works, the following questions will be considered: What do these works mean? Do these works mean? If they can mean, in what ways do they bear their meanings? What are they for if they do not mean?

 

A5, 32 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, Includes download code. 

Arterial & Gil De Ray, 2024