Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

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Morton Feldman - Two Pianos and other Pieces - John Tilbury, Philip Thomas - Another Timbre

Morton Feldman - Two Pianos and other Pieces - John Tilbury, Philip Thomas - Another Timbre

The two discs of music included in this release bring together works that differently explore Morton Feldman's twin preoccupations: the very behavior of sound itself and the perception of time. Deploying performance instructions within the scores (as much about listening as playing) he pushes the players into a phenomenological relationship with the performance space and their instruments. At their most sublime these works hover in limpid suspension seemingly defying time. They exist outside the narrative impulse, beyond form and story. The recordings themselves are perfect in their location of sound. The microscopic intimacy often deployed today is eschewed for a beautifully articulated middle ground which serves the pieces beautifully. The playing interprets Feldman's still radical aims with infinite sensitivity.

Another Timbre
"And so we leave behind the turbulence of symbols and approach a country that is immense, ancient, and yet very new, where meaning is so discrete as to become a rarity. From this moment on, a new territory is revealed: that of delicacy, or, better yet (I venture using this word, at the risk of having to take it up again later), of blandness."
- Roland Barthes (on China), 1975, Alors la Chine?