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Hello everybody.
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Conv is proud to present the brand new album of NYC artist John Hudak
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after his excellents releases on Spekk and and/OAR:
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Poised somewhere between mechanical music & chamber pieces (for
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pizzicato cello), these tracks herald the return of the avantgarde to
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her original locality: the salon, this heart of 'bourgeois' society.
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The non-communicative qualities of the modernistic literary avantgarde
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(of which James Joyce & Gertrude Stein in particular may be
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considered iconographic), we find here in the sublimated form of
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tranquil and austere monophonies, the unique character of which - each
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voice, each work, each individual genius - now comes to reside purely
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in the abstracted prosody of midi-triggered cello samples. This is
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altogether an undeniably 'post-modern' take on modernism: the
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unrelentless and self-consuming presence of the original art of which
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these pieces are derived (the pieces are taken from the voices of
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Gertrude Stein and James Joyce reading from their works) has now taken
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a much more diluted and yet more immanent form: a music which having
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soaked up all the heavy-weighing ambiance of artistic ideals &
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pretension and, having become satiated, now softly leaks out into the
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salon as conversation pieces, bringing human life in all its
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'ordinariness' (the inverted comma's, being the trade-mark of
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postmodernity, signifying its own special character) back into the
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room, and perhaps breathing new life into the idea of the salon.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.con-v.org">http://www.con-v.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.johnhudak.net">http://www.johnhudak.net</a><br>
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regards,<br>
m.a.<br>
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