John White, Gavin Bryars – Machine Music [LP] Industrial / Power Electronics noise and avant-garde in general

noise and avant-garde in general that stretches back more than two decades

and finding that the central nervous system level annoyance I felt that day had its roots far more in the music than the actions of those poor people

where the audio perpetually falls in on itself creating a bed of sound inexplicably eschewing standard movement and progression as it unfolds out and around the listener

The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage

hand drums and gongs of the Gamelan ensembles of Indonesia

John White, Gavin Bryars – Machine Music [LP] Industrial / Power Electronics noise and avant-garde in general"THE COMPOSERS NOTES ON THE WORKS The Machines, which date from the period 1967 1972 represent a departure from the more traditionally narrative nature of the rest of my pieces. I use the word Machine to define a consistent process governing a series of musical actions within a particular sound world and, by extension, the listeners perception thereof. One might thus regard the Welsh Rarebit as a Machine in which a process is applied to the