Robbie Lee is an improviser and sound creator in New York City, performing on an eclectic range of instruments, across the fringes of creative music in many scenes. On Prismatist he plays only two things: sopranino saxophone and tuning forks with live electronics. They are like two currents alternating through the album, a double helix of contrasting extremities. The sopranino, even higher than the soprano saxophone, twists its way through disintegrating patterns, with a folk-like tonal element coming through the noise. Interspersed between are pieces for tuning forks and live electronics, a kind of musique concrete where the acoustic tuning forks emulate warped sine waves in the open air. They are earthy and organic, with hallucinatory psychoacoustic stereo qualities. As the Prismatist of the album’s title, Robbie Lee splits sound into a spectrum color, with his highly personal musical language.
1. Duskfallen 04:42
2. The Expanded Present 04:34
3. Refractory 01:57
4. Openend 02:08
5. Truetone 01:41
6. Dot Dash 01:28
7. That's Just The Thing 01:55
8. Timecode 02:17
9. Depends on What You Mean By Go Round 04:40
10. Colorfield 02:48
11. The Invention of Blue Sky 02:42
12. Curvilinear 01:30
13. Prismatist 02:38
14. One Great Blooming Buzzing Confusion 01:48
Robbie Lee - sopranino saxophone, tuning forks with live electronics
