American songwriter and musician Charlemagne Palestine was part of New York’s “downtown new music scene ” of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like his contemporaries Phill Niblock, La Monte Young, Tony Conrad and Phil Corner, he embarked upon a minimalist adventure, where he left the beaten path, in a completely opposite direction than that taken by other minimalists such as Steve Reich and Phil Glass. He chooses to submit the concepts of minimalism to acoustic explorations, ignoring the conventions that distinguish concert from performance and completely separating the sound event from the artist and his or her instrument.
He thus delved into experimenting with “drones”, continuous humming, buzzing sounds that he explored in his long piano performances, bringing to light all of the unsuspected richness of the instrument.
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