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HUNT, JERRY - Haramand Plane: Three Translation Links

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Pogus Productions P21069-2
Release Year: 2013
Note: one of the most uncategorizable and 'difficult' albums we ever listened to, this contains three long pieces from 1993 by this 'marginal explorer of a remote terrain'; re-released now by POGUS (originally released by What Next? Recordings 1994); still to discover!
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"Pogus is very honored to be able to reissue this recording of works by the late Jerry Hunt (1943-1993), originally released on ¿What Next? Having long been fascinated by Hunt’s work, it is great to be able to have these last works of his available on CD once again.

To quote “Blue” Gene Tyranny:

“In the 1970s electronic music practitioners constituted a rare and marginal population on the frontiers of interactive media and performance. Audio, with its modest bandwidth requirements, led video by at least a decade in every major discovery. Early artists were able to experiment, construct, interconnect and perform with electronic systems that were consciously digital, real-time and interactive long before those buzzwords were mentioned in other artistic contexts. Among the pioneers, Jerry Hunt was the rarest, most marginal explorer of a remote terrain. As his musical activities moved from the electronic sound pieces of the 1970s into the legendary performances of the 1980s, Hunt brought along with him a curiously rich and viable ecosystem of pieces, structuring principles, performing gestures, and theatrical personae.”

“The sounds on this recording, created in 1993, are completely different from the ones that constitute normal or academic electronic music. The three sections of this electronic work constitute the composer's last pieces. He regarded the recorded version of this work as a "document for rehearing." The overall sound is the densest and most intricate in this one of a kind artist's body of work. The three sections consist of "interlocking audio and video optical discs which provide the fundamental image, sound and program control strings ... action code pattern structures ... for a group of transactional mimetic gesture exercises ... inflection calls evoking ... melody streams" with simultaneous tracks of acoustic percussion. The sonic result is an entrancing, overwhelming, evocative shamanic performance of brilliantly designed electronic timbres.” [label info]

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"The Pogus label has a fine nose for forgotten and underestimated recordings from the past in the field of electronic music. This results in well-documented releases, like this one: ‘Haramand Plane’ by Jerry Hunt, originally released by ?What Next?(1994). Electronic music attracted pioneers of all kinds, often loners who built their own universes with more or less success. Jerry Hunt was one of them, an eccentric composer from Texas who ended his life in 1993, aged 50. He studied piano and composition at the University of North Texas and became an accomplished pianist, playing compositions of American and European composers. He gained some fame with his live electronic events combined with ritualistic performances. In order to make his work available he founded his own Irida label. The titles on this Pogus release were the last works he realized before he died. Titles of the three works on this release are: ‘Chimanzzi: Link (1)’, ‘Chimanzzi: Link (2)’ and ‘Chimanzzi: Drape: Link’. It is electronic music of a very own kind. Fine textures with lots of details and layered sounds. It makes the impression of very organic sound constructions, that are far from dry, academic experiments. I admit, I associate abstract electronic music more with the intellect than with other human capacities. But listening to these works I became more and more impressed by the lively and organic feel that is in this music. This music flows like water in a river or blood through our veins. Very evocative and sensitive music, sounding quasi-nonchalant. Resulting in something that is more than just music. Must have been a visionary artist!" [DM/Vital Weekly]