Evan Lindorff-Ellery | Tape Collage Piece 2011
(Falt Records)
With his prolific Notice Recordings cassette imprint and the many local live events that he presents, such as Opus 40’s yearly Verbatim small-press poetry/record label festival, Kingston experimental musician and visual artist Evan Lindorff-Ellery has quietly become one of the vital young movers of the Hudson Valley scene. The title of Tape Collage Piece 2011 gives the listener a good idea of what this recent archival release on the French label Falt is all about: an extended piece of music concrete (spilt over two sides that are, roughly, 35 and 28 minutes), recorded to tape in Chicago in 2011. This is deep, ambient, immersive electroacoustic stuff; sprawling vistas of mysterious, meditative field recordings and furtive found sounds—pinging metal, distant classical music, whooshing wind, something that sounds like windshield wipers on a snowy day—that have been looped, blended, and at times lightly manipulated to create an art installation-ready soundtrack.
This article appears in January 2024.
