Surface Noise "Re-Animates" Estonian Master's Work For The Frontier Romantic Universe
This month sees the premiere of an animated music video for Devin Greenwood’s new song "Surface Noise." Greenwood approached the legendary Estonian cartoonist and animation director Priit Pärn with a new cut of Hotel E, Pärn’s colorful, classic short on post-Soviet identity and western malaise. Pärn lent his enthusiastic support and later requested “Surface Noise” be included in RETROSPECTIVE: PRIIT & OLGA PÄRN, a tribute to his work and that of his wife, director and animato
Tape Op Magazine features Devin Greenwood on mixing a Broken Orchestra
“The idea is you play the note where it would sound normally on the instrument, and if it's wrong, that becomes part of the piece. That's in the tradition of John Cage, who brought indeterminacy into music composition with rolling dice or using the I Ching to decide where notes go.” - Devin Greenwood Indeterminacy is the concept behind David Lang’s commissioned composition “Symphony For Broken Instruments”. The 400-piece orchestral performance took place in Philadelphia one
