Alvin Curran - The Works LP 1975 using two large gongs

1975 using two large gongs

like it is said in the divine hand of “Diligent Pores

disconnected fragments of recorded "living speech" -- simultaneously disintegrate and merge to create meaning through the musical process

The record is a representation of how I had been processing the horrors of the present -- the sadness of the loss of life not only in the states but through the genocides in Sudan

With members’ musical origins in the Bay Area and beyond that include Mayyors

Alvin Curran - The Works LP 1975 using two large gongsThe Works one of the most famous pieces by brilliant American composer Alvin Curran was not created by will and direct purpose but, as the composer himself states, as a "providential accident" which is to say quite organically. Combining piano and voice with found sound and a custom built Serge modular synthesizer, The Works is a slowly developing piece where space and ambient tape are eventually overtaken by raga esque chanting and frenetic piano