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About Amalgam: Aluminum/Hydrogen
Review "Mastering an artist's work can make it difficult to be a fan; the job of mastering, by definition, means combing through the work, looking for any opportunity to improve or fix. Inevitably, once the work is done, so is your interest in the work. However, in the case of Amalgam: Aluminum/Hydrogen, I find myself in an unusual position - I keep coming back to the disk, not out of duty, but out of respect and awe. This is a piece both lovely and loving, and represents a tasteful window into the mind of a true artist." - Darwin Grosse, Mastering Engineer --CreativeSynth "Gregory Taylor's music is pure paradoxical delight! It seems simple but is extremely sophisticated, it casts a joyfully melancholy aura, and it tickles my intellectual emotions. Plainly put: these pieces are just terrific. Taylor is doing the kind of music that I wish Brian Eno and others would be doing, but it takes someone with Taylor's command of contemporary technology coupled with his broad sensitivity to the nuances of sound to do this today. His work manages to evoke a rich musical history while simultaneously opening a doorway into a vibrant new sonic future. I could listen to this stuff all day. As a matter of fact, I have. I really like this music." - Brad Garton, Director --Columbia University Computer Music Center Product Description Like Robert Henke, Keith Fullerton Whitman, or Christopher Willits, Gregory Taylor takes on the problem of developing new ways to originate music by setting aside typical compositional / improvisational techniques in favor of developing new technologies capable not only of generating sound, but of creating music. Here he unifies the practice of synthesis, sampling, processing and looping into a single, simultaneously occurring stream of events that the listener perceives in the same living moment in which the composer creates. The resulting music is a shifting, densely interrelated cloud of layered and juxtaposed materials which essentially make music out of music. References point forward to a completely post-modern aesthetic while acknowledging a deep love of past and traditional musics, especially the intricate patterns and lush tunings of gamelan. His approach creates a deep context that allows the listener to follow the sometimes smooth, sometimes abrupt turns to the entirely new, while discovering the subtle and numerous coherences of all the elements. On his first CD for PoL, Amalgam: Aluminum / Hydrogen proves to be a marriage of buoyancy and structure. It is a single unedited recording of a live improvised performance by a radiaL virtuoso that unites the tunings and epicyclic forms of gamelan music that characterized Taylor's 80s cassette culture releases with the timbres and aural surfaces of glitch, ambient and lowercase musics.
