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Erik Hall: Multitracking The Minimalist Aesthetic
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Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on musician and composer Erik Hall.Based in Michigan, Erik Hall has spent the last five years doing something that sounds simple but definitely is not: recording landmark works of contemporary classical music entirely on his own.
Erik's 2020 solo reconstruction of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" won the Libera Award for Best Classical Record. Reich wrote to tell him he'd reinvented the piece. A 2023 interpretation of Simeon ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" followed, and now Hall has completed the trilogy. Solo Three came out in January on Western Vinyl, and it takes on works by Glenn Branca, Charlemagne Palestine, Laurie Spiegel, and Reich again, every note performed and recorded by Hall himself, no loops, no sequencers.
Erik is here to walk us through the project and the thinking behind it.
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