
Catalog
2022
Tracks
2. Best Out of Three (160bpm) 11:46
Notes
Best Out of Three could only have been written by Philip Glass. It feels like the ‘missing link’ between his early works (Two Pages, Strung Out, How Now) and the mind-blowing Music in… pieces (…Fifths, Similar Motion, Changing Parts, etc.) that came soon thereafter. In description it fits well with all of the above: diatonic, limited range, perpetual motion. The material is repetitive – 3,744 8th notes – but there are no literal repeats, at least as far as I can tell. The one marking in the score is ‘mechanically,’ but the piece is incredibly expressive and evocative, reaching back to medieval hocket and isorhythm, providing a sonic analogue to mid-century op- and pop-art, and looking forward to the constant stream of innovative music Philip would continue to produce for the next 50 years, and counting.”
– Evan Ziporyn
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Credits
Recorded 8/27/2021 Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge MIT
Engineered by Luis ‘Cuco’ Daglio
Track #1 Mixed, Edited and Mastered by Luis ‘Cuco’ Daglio
Track #2 Mixed, Edited and Mastered by Dave Cook
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