[NewMusic] scott looney turns 24

[Kristian Aspelin]

While I was unfortunately not at the show last night, I would like to add that I think Scott's latest solo cd, Repercussions, is excellent.  The cd does an excellent job of capturing both his great sense/use of harmony/melody along with his more "abstract" inside piano work, sometimes within the same piece.  This cd definitely deserves recognition.   The fact that I have yet to see a review about it, however, for me brings up some of the issues discussed in reaction to the Zorn article.  

Ava Mendoza <ava.mendoza at gmail.com> wrote:  just wanted to pop in and mention that scott looney played a really
terrific solo set tonight at 1510.. never seen him play solo before,
and i imagine i am not alone in this. super fluid between keyboard and
and piano insides.. from subtle timbral/harmonic stuff on the strings
to really notey lines and clusters his improvising had a strong sense
of character and continuity, which i think is pretty special with such
a range. really cool abrupt percussive accents.. i think though that
it was his interesting sense of harmony that kind of tied all of his
wide vocabulary together and made each piece very personal. even the
most abstract parts had a thoughtful attention to harmony. more and
more i think that this is important no matter how abstract the music
you are playing is-- you can ignore pitch completely if you want, but
that just ends up meaning that you create shitty harmonies, or boring
ones. happy birthday scott and congrats on such a great set!
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