Peter Knight, Australian Art Orchestra - Crossed and Recrossed (2021)

Crossed & Recrossed presents two works composed by Peter Knight & inspired by mappings of imagined places by iconic Australian novelist, Gerald Murnane & Italian master, Italo Calvino.

Simultaneously celebrating & deconstructing the tropes of minimalism, Crossed & Recrossed creates a series of musical mirages that form on an endless sonic horizon, reflecting & reimagining the wide open spaces described in Murnane’s iconic novel, The Plains & the labyrinthine streets of Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

“Peter Knight’s work sets up a post-minimal logic that refracts & disintegrates as we listen. The instrumentation of the chamber jazz orchestra is expanded with the unexpected additions of turntables, a reel-to-reel tape machine & live laptop signal processing. The sounds of acoustic instruments & voices are interwoven with field recordings cut onto vinyl & are filtered & augmented as Knight plays with our perceptions of what we hear & what we imagine we have heard. Time folds into itself in a very Calvino-esque manner, leaving us with the trace residue of moments half remembered.”

Tracklist:
1 01. Peter Knight; Australian Art Orchestra - The Plains, Pt. 1 (08:24)
1 02. Peter Knight; Australian Art Orchestra - The Plains, Pt. 2 (03:18)
1 03. Peter Knight; Australian Art Orchestra - The Plains, Pt. 3 (10:51)
1 04. Peter Knight; Australian Art Orchestra - Diomira (15:22)