Here's the final installment of the year-end countdown of my favorite albums from 2015. Read approximately numbers 40 through 31,30 through 21, and 20 through 11.
10) Michael Pisaro, or A Mist Is a Collection of Points (current World)
On this recording from Michael Pisaro,the most celebrated American member of the Wandelweiser composers' collective, sparsely charted resonant notes hang in the air like the mist of its title. The three-part work—performed by pianist Phillip Bush, and percussionist Greg Stuart,and Pisaro himself adding sine-wave tones—provides a series of perspectives on how sounds spread, disperse, or interact,focusing on the acoustic phenomena that occur after each individual note arrives and on the shaping of music by the space around it.
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Source: chicagoreader.com