Grady, Kraig
Beyond The Windows Perhaps Among...
This CD marks the premiere full length album by just-intonation composer and instrument builder KRAIG GRADY outside of his documentation of the music of Anaphoria Island. It is also the first recording of his music which does not rely on his great skills as a performer or the instruments of his own design or modification. Instead, in this 55 minute composition Grady has chosen 6 of his favorite instrumentalists and vocalists from a wide variety of backgrounds, each because of some unique quality that he finds in their musicality. Grady calls upon these players to perform pitches with extreme accuracy, but also to use the wide range of timbres possible on their instruments or voices. This extremely meditative yet somewhat intense composition explores a tuning called Meta-Meantone - this tuning has the characteristics of exploiting a variety of acoustical phenomenon ranging from equal beating chords to the reinforcement of difference tone phenomenon. This is an entirely acoustic recording with no processing effects of any kind. Originally designed for his own personal use, Grady considers this one of his finest compositions, performed exceptionally well, persuading him to release this for the enjoyment of others.