{"product_id":"jerry-hunt-ground-five-mechanic-convention-streams","title":"Jerry Hunt - Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic\r\nConvention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt's compositional process. The record\r\ncollects five pieces from the artist's \"Ground\" series, translating his characteristically variable and spatial\r\nscores into \"recorded fixtures of activity using mechanic musical instrument arrays,\" to eerie and mesmerizing\r\nresults. Originally released by experimental label OODiscs in 1992, it is now available on vinyl for the first\r\ntime from Blank Forms Editions. It's tracks are dense and unpredictable, a miscellany of arrhythmic bursts,\r\nfragments of spoken and whispered words, soft then fevered rattles and shaking, and a rare return to\r\npianoforte for the virtuoso player. On \"Talk (slice): double\" a nervous, warped dialogue unfolds between\r\nHunt and composer Rod Stasick, their voices alternately measured and monstrous. In \"Transform (stream):\r\nmonopole,\" breathy whistles build against a shimmering stream of bells, rattles, and shakers in a fantastical\r\ncascade of percussion. Hunt revisits the piano in \"Lattice (stream): ordinal\" and \"Bitom (stream): link,\"\r\noscillating between gentle, almost classical phrases and frantic, seemingly random play. His collaboration with\r\nviolinist Jane Henry, \"Chimanazzi (Olun): core,\" extends similarly unorthodox playing techniques to the\r\nviolin, involving the scraping, plucking, and playing of it's strings. The unstable quality of these tracks belies\r\nthe rigor of Hunt's procedures; each ofGround's five pieces, their \"common ground core,\" is derived from the\r\nangelic tables of sixteenth century English philosopher and occultist John Dee, adapted by Hunt as\r\nframeworks to layer, adapt, and renew in his compositions. With a complex arrangement of sensors and\r\nequipment, which the artist called \"interrelated electronic, mechanic, and social sound-sight interactive\r\ntransactional systems,\" Hunt realized these derivative systems in the techno-shamanic performances for which\r\nhe is best known. Ground distills these procedures into fixed songs, producing a vital and critical record of\r\nHunt's singular approach to composition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45297247977777,"sku":"769791979208","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/4106859-2847893.jpg?v=1684191890","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/jerry-hunt-ground-five-mechanic-convention-streams","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}