Bill Orcutt – The Anxiety of Symmetry [LP] Sound Art / Sound Poetry sometimes making unexpected reappearances

sometimes making unexpected reappearances

and the most devoted of fans

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almost Nono-esque reverberated space of its opening section to the crisp foreground presence of Jim O’Rourke’s synth and Evyind Kang’s strings in its final moments

Bill Orcutt – The Anxiety of Symmetry [LP] Sound Art / Sound Poetry sometimes making unexpected reappearances"Bill Orcutts latest counting album, The Anxiety of Symmetry, completes a trilogy on his Fake Estates label that started with Pure Genius (2020) and A Mechanical Joey (2021), all realized with his own Cracked computer music software. Comprising two 15 minute long improvisations, the albums terrain is limited to six samples of female voices singing the number of the corresponding note value in the first six pitches of a major scale. These are fashioned