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01. Anne Tardos - Refrigerator Defrosting
02. Anne Tardos - Seven-Layer Song
03. Anne Tardos - Voices From Video
04. Anne Tardos - Pipes At 110 Mercer, November 1974
05. Anne Tardos - Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer
ARTIST
TITLE
Gatherings
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
R 062CD R 062CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/21/2019

"Anne Tardos is an American poet, visual and vocal artist; she has developed a unique performance style that allows her to move fluidly within -- and between -- media. This is evident in Gatherings, which was originally published on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics, and holds recordings from 1974-1981. It stands as one of Tardos's seminal audio documents; two forms of sound are examined here; the first is observational and static recordings of the artist's loft: percussive sounds from heat pipes expanding and contracting and the irregular pulse of her refrigerator defrosting. The reflection of chaos found in nature is encapsulated and tagged here in its simplest form. Tardos rolled those moments of found sounds onto tape, reexamining the meaning (and the ultimate absence) of stillness. The other form of this album is multichannel solo voice works; they are intimate, close-miked, and playful, morphing from harmonic swirls to whisperings. They capture a dynamic exploration of her extended vocal range -- the contrast between pieces is dramatic. The final piece, "Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer," integrates both forms. It is a self-portrait of the artist sleeping, bending inside breath and air, a study of the physical surface above dreams, the durational search within the expanse of the self, and the phenomenal depth of the shallows is splashed in our ears" --Sean McCann, April 2019. Edition of 200, includes eight-page booklet with notes by Tardos and Charlie Morrow.