MARC RIORDAN & YI-CHEN CHANG - "Quad Sound, Vol. 1" CS

Yi-Chen Chang & Marc Riordan - Quad Sound, Volume 1 CS (Haha, 2021) "improvised violin and piano duets recorded in cambridge, ma in 2005. here is what writer catherine wagley has to say about quad sound, volume one! it’s hard sometimes to know exactly where you are in quad sound, and there is some relief in being an untethered listener. it even feels a little bit familiar to always be in the midst of a space with no clear start and end point—it’s what most days feel like to me—even after you’ve listened a number of times (though that whooshing cat call sound almost half way through does function loosely as a middle). when i first started listening, i thought fleetingly of the time in adolescence when liking mingus ah um felt like it meant something, because everyone else i grew up around found it strange and alienating. quad sound reminds me of the phase that comes long after you realize that appreciating experiments is not special, and many people you do and will know embrace