SLOW SIX: Private Times In Public Places

Slow Six

Private Times In Public Places

© 2004 Slow Six (616892578123)

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Electro-acoustic chamber music; could be ambient, could be post-rock

tracks

1 This Is Your Last Chance (before I Sleep)
2 Evening Without Atonement
3 The Lines We Walked When We Walked Once Together

notes

Multi-media collective Slow Six has been delivering its own brand of electronic chamber music since 1998. Instrumentation includes amplified strings, electric guitars, keyboards, homegrown software instruments, and video projections mixed live throughout the space. Born of that natural space between classical and popular music, Slow Six mixes the instrumental prowess and compositional focus of classical music with real-time digital signal processing and lush visual landscapes. Whether collaborating with modern dancers, interpreting improvisational structures, or performing dynamic electro-acoustic scores beneath layers of video, their sound is always engaging and distinctive. Central to Slow Six is the extensive use of custom audio applications composer, violinist, and software designer Christopher Tignor creates, allowing him to transfigure the sounds of the acoustic instruments in the ensemble throughout the work. As these audio samples are captured live and thus unique to each performance, the computer’s voice remains rooted within its evolving musical surroundings transforming the computer from its limited role as a playback device or sound effect generator into a full-fledged member of the ensemble.

The band’s debut release, Private Times in Public Places, was chosen as one of Time Out New York’s top 10 classical recordings of 2004 and has been featured on radio programs internationally. The group performs regularly in NYC. More information is available at www.slowsix.com.

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  • melodic and very relaxing
    author: Martin

    Also heard this band a few times on WFMU (wfmu.org) and was very impressed. Very relaxing, slowly evolving lengthy tracks, with computer effects adding an ethereal ambient quality to the mix (the computer is credited as an instrument in its own right). Highly recommended, original music. I'm lookng forward to their next CD.

  • New Musical Experiences, Slow Six, and Shameful Solicitation
    author: Joe Christiana

    I heard these guys play live on WFMU, a NY Area non-commercial radio station, and was instantly entranced. So much so, I ordered the CD the next day. I found the music to be moody, ominous, dense, open, peaceful, violent, immediate and ethereal—often all at the same time- and no less enchanting for the studio recording. I'm not accustomed to listening to this genre (whatever genre it falls into, I don’t know) and so it opened new doors for me musically, doors I’ll willingly go through again. What more could I ask for in a musical experience!? And after hearing the musicians describe their creative process (something about processing their instrumentation using real-time digital manipulation via customized software) they’re an act I’m keeping my eye out for. I gotta see what’s going on here. Luckily, I think they’re a NYC based band and I won’t have to wait too long- gonna check them out in Princeton this month. Thanks guys and good luck.

  • If you allow it to, Slow Six will change you
    author: Andy

    As a listener to many genres of music I am intrigued and enthralled by Private Times in Public Places. Here's why: how I listen to various musics boils down to two methods; for pop and compositional works I consciously follow the narrative like I do reading a story; my attention rises and falls with the resolution of verses, choruses and distinct passages. With free jazz or drone I yield to the music and try not to consciously pay attention to any distinct parts; I take it all in with no priorities. This work by Slow Six is one of the only recordings I've experienced where both listening methods are in play simultaneaously. It truly is an enthralling work. The closer I listen the more elusive its effects. The less focused my listening, the more I am hypnotized.

  • good album
    author: nick amendola

    this album is totally great. the day i got it i put it on and it lulled me to sleep immediately. some would think that this is a bad thing for a cd to do, that it means the music contained wihtin is boring and lackluster, pedantical or dull. this is not the case with slowsix. if you want great music to hold someone or to hold your own thoughts in awe, cop this album stat.

  • Contemplative
    author: seldon yuan

    PTIPP is contemplative record. It's very subtle in its construction and instrumentation, but rich and full in sound and heart. It feels amazingly organic. It brings me to a place similar to that of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, but don't mistake it for jazz. This is the next chapter in new music - in particular live computer aided instrumentation. It's holding up very well under multiple listens. This is something really good and not to be skipped.

  • author: k pronin

    This is some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard of any genre, particularly the heaving dramatic moments of the last track. Otherwise quite minimalist, it’s a very urban classical in its mood of simple stoic solitude.

  • Stupendious addition to my CD library
    author: Bob Bell

    From the very beginning of this disc, Slow Six had my undivided attention. I haven't been so drawn into the music like this in a long time. Waiting for the next release.

  • Private Times in Public Places
    author: J. Sterritt

    Slow Six’s Private Times in Public Places begins with a radio ascending the dial -- seeking, finding, moving on –- like a raga finding its notes. The radio hands this off to more conventional instruments (guitar, Rhodes) and the seeking continues, as does the discovery process. By the time the violin enters, however, the tentative nature of this game is given the lie: we are listening to bold music. Turning a dial, like walking to the corner store, is a small, fixed thing. Being awake to the possibilities inherent in these things is how we seek, discover, connect and move through life. In Chris Tignor’s music, analysis is exploration and the application of contrived, cerebral methods produces poetry. Private Times in Public Places is the best thing going in classical music today.

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