ARNOLD DREYBLATT / THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS
Nodal Excitation
(India Navigation) Used LP $35.00
Repetition and rhythm explored to fastidious degrees, this quintessential 1982 study in minimalism with a small ensemble performing on Dreyblatt’s modified string instruments, which are hammered in art-brut fashion, resulting in a deep and complex array of overtones and harmonics, is a vital recording, essential to listeners with both passing and in-depth interests in minimalist and avant-garde music. With price sticker on front cover.
Point Source / Lapse
(Table Of The Elements) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
Point Source sounds like a cross between minimalism and post-rock (with Dreyblatt on “excited bass,” Jim O’Rourke on drums, David Grubbs and Kevin Drumm on guitars, and Maureen Loughnare on violin). Lapse is traditional Dreyblatt string-based minimalism. From 2003. Clear vinyl
Turntable History
(Important) Used CD $5.00
A recording of a 40-minute multi-channel sound composition conceived as part of an audio-visual installation in the circular vaulted brick space of a historical water container in Berlin in 2009. Harmonically resonating, pulsating signals derived from recordings made by Arnold Dreyblatt of a Magnetic Resonance Imagining Scanner (Siemens Magnetom Symphony Maestro Class) in a radiological practice in Berlin.