(Part 2 in a 10 part “metal box” series)

PHYSICAL:
2 CDS
metal tin
Edition: 250 ct
First Edition: 030819
Second Editon: 050401

PRESS RELEASE
One of the pioneering practitioners of minimalist improvisation presents his latest work for three trombones in 16th intervals. This composition "Indescrete Silences" combines dynamic silence with sensual release in Malfatti’s ineffable style.

Approaching some of the same aesthetics from a different angle Ilya Monosov’s “Music for Listening” is just that. This composition is intended to act as a catalyst for actually hearing all the sounds in our environments that we normally filter out. Although a rigorous composition that presents its own round sonic world it also rewards repeated listenings in different environments by consistently bringing out the beautiful in the serendipitous sounds that happen to occur.

In his own words:
“ Music For Listening”, described by the composer as a serialism of memories and expectations, is all in all arranged into '3 structures and was generated with a digitally treated trumpet;

on “Music For Listening”...silent windows, through which one listens to 'outside' musics, each sound harmoniously connects with the next, silence in between allows for alteration, rearrangement, and degeneration of a possibly forming music pattern - leaving it up to one's inner-workings.'"(i.m.2002)

REVIEW EXCERPTS:
“ Demanding, well structured, and even more rewarding for the careful listener (…) It's a challenging set, and certainly one which prompts you to sit up and listen closely, even at the silence, which present here is in great abundance.” - incursion.org

“ Once more the question of what music really is has been asked. I think the Monosov pieces are powerful pieces, contemplative and Zen like, with massive silence and only the smallest particles at work.” - Vital Weekly

“ Malfatti's grainy drones are thick Franz Kline brushstrokes, whereas Monosov's sound events are like tiny flecks of paint. Both pieces inhabit their blank canvases wonderfully though, and connoisseurs of this kind of music are strongly encouraged to check them out (as well as Bremsstrahlung's previous magnificent lowercase-sound double CD compilations, if they haven't completely disappeared into the welcoming arms of avid collectors).” - Paris Transatlantic