Netochka @PlantSyntaxDiffusion
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A piece seemingly concerned with objects in space, if the 
poetic elaboration on the program notes is to be taken 
seriously.

The composer did give a spiel at the start but she was both 
very nervous and in immediate need of public speaking 
instruction so despite trying hard to catch it and being 10 
feet away I have no idea what she said.

The piece began with minimal pristine electronics a la a 
kinda grungy Ikeda and I was very encouraged. This is my 
schtick...these etherealities were pierced...theres some 
masculinist metaphor for you..by crashing jingling sounds 
not wearing their FX on their sleeves, reminiscent of the 
timbe of the early concrete music of the 50's/60's. The piece 
for me was deeply characterised by a tremedously skillfull 
use of dynamics in a dramatic way that wasn't at all 
bombastic and particularly in regard to the placement of 
silence. The piece had some considerable dramatic 
momentum and was really exciting at certain points. The 
ending was a kinda fizzle and seemed at odds with so much 
of the focussed direction of the earlier parts of the piece 
though again I felt that as it became more varied sonically 
throughout it lost some focus. Of the pieces performed off 
the desk.. I think it was.... it seemed the most severly 
disciplined piece of the night.

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Contributed to the Undesirable Propagation Unit by agent AlanBamford