The FIMAV performance is an extraordinary recording, an aural opportunity to hear the Ensemble exploring at length, stretching the contemporaneous studio documentation, but even with the Ensemble’s brilliant and transformative history, Sainkho Namtchylak’s spontaneous addition to Fixing is unique. Namtchylak’s intensity transcends the metaphoric. This performance is not folkloric. It is folklore. It is not shamanic. It is shamanism.
The ElectroAcoustic Ensemble is one of the most significant events in the humanization of electronic music, in making it mobile and spontaneously responsive. Fluctuating, by the Ensemble itself, is more than a valuable document, it’s a major revelatory work. Stuart Broomer
1. Fixing 39'40"
2. Fluctuating 32'33"
Sainkho Namtchylak - voice
Barry Guy - bass
Paul Lytton - percussion, electronics
Philipp Wachsmann - violon, alto saxophone, electronics
Marco Vecchi - diffusion sonore, live electronics
Walter Prati - live electronics
Evan Parker - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
