Kraig Grady: Kraig Grady: Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss - COMPACT DISCS

Kraig Grady: Kraig Grady: Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Kraig Grady: Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss

Artist:

Kraig Grady

Label:

Mode Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

764593035121

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-08-07

Number of Discs:

1

Kraig Grady, an American based in Australia, is a microtonal composer. He explains it thus:'Alternative tunings are a major inspiration for my compositional explorations. The pivotal point for me was meeting with tuning theorist Ervin Wilson and witnessing Harry Partch's U.S. Highball in 1975. I was convinced that working with different instruments and tunings was going to be a major artistic movement. I began studying tuning with Wilson which continued for as long as we knew each other. I'm interested in using acoustic instruments as sound sources to explore new acoustic phenomena that cannot be mistaken for electronic manipulation.' The starting point for the works on this CD was to record each performer playing individual notes in the given microtonal tuning with extreme pitch accuracy. The recordings are edited to capture the personal expressivity of the players and the individuality of their gestures in the recordings become inseparable from the composition process. These recordings of individual notes are then weaved together to form melodic lines and combined to build harmonies and shifting textures.Liner notes by Grady with illustrated samples.

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