Ben Zucker - ( )hole complex (per/formance/eration) | CD

“Holey Space, or more accurately ( )hole complex (connoting a degenerate wholeness), speeds up and triggers a particular subversion in solid bodies such as earth. It unfolds holes as ambiguous entities -- oscillating between surface and depth -- within solid matrices, fundamentally corrupting the latter’s consolidation and wholeness through perforations and terminal porosities. For a solid body, the vermiculation of holes undermines the coherency between the circumferential surfaces and its solidity. The process of degenerating a solid body by corrupting the coherency of its surfaces is called ungrounding. In other words, the process of ungrounding degenerates the whole into an endless hollow body -- irreducible to nothingness -- and damages the coherency between the surfaces and the solid body in itself.” (Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia)

( )hole complex was written for Garden Unit, who sought a piece defined by exploration, and the space to make decisions within it. They move through, around, and across many pages of material, which include a number of notational methods and strategies for re-interpreting pages on reentry.

The worst possible thing would be for a piece like this to just ‘re(-)present’ Negarestani’s writing–I have done my...  more

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released January 4, 2024

Composition by Ben Zucker
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Performed by Garden Unit: Julia Ansolabahere, clarinet; Cameron Roberts, soprano saxophone)
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Recorded by Konstantinos Baras & Ben Zucker at the Ryan Center for Musical Arts, Northwestern University, May 2023

Mixing & editing by Ben Zucker
Executive Producer, Kory Reeder
Sawyer Editions, 2023
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