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<\/a><\/h3>\nZane Trow<\/em><\/strong> has been professionally involved in the contemporary live and sound arts since the mid-70s. Most of his work was created for various performances, film, visual arts, and \u2018large scale sound installations\/performance projects\u2019 <\/em>with people like David Toop, Richard Barrett,<\/em> and Scanner<\/em>.<\/p>\nHis extensive experience is only partly reflected in his discography, however: his 2004 debut For Those Who Hear Actual Voices was the only physical (CD-)release, the six other titles (such as Why Echoes<\/a>, 2021, and Envo\u00fbteuse Haleine<\/a>, 2023) were download-only releases. And so is his new release, also on Room40<\/a>: Quire.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nI had to look the meaning of that title, and found that it can refer to \u2018a pamphlet of four pages folded to make eight leaves (16 pages): the ordinary unit of construction for early manuscripts and books\u2019<\/em>, but also to \u2018choir\u2019. Not sure what the connection really is, but the fact that Quire<\/em><\/strong> has eight tracks will probably be no coincidence.<\/p>\nWith the help of Stephen Spencer<\/em><\/strong> on saxophone and treatments, Zane Trow<\/em> <\/strong>presents an attractive and varied atmospheric collection of works that he introduces with these words:
\u2018The simplest of these works have taken the most cajoling towards their intended form \u2026 dust in the breeze of a sonic moment \u2026 others are a textual gesture toward peculiar notions of sound as memory and evocation\u2019.<\/em> <\/p>\n
His extensive experience is only partly reflected in his discography, however: his 2004 debut For Those Who Hear Actual Voices was the only physical (CD-)release, the six other titles (such as Why Echoes<\/a>, 2021, and Envo\u00fbteuse Haleine<\/a>, 2023) were download-only releases. And so is his new release, also on Room40<\/a>: Quire.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I had to look the meaning of that title, and found that it can refer to \u2018a pamphlet of four pages folded to make eight leaves (16 pages): the ordinary unit of construction for early manuscripts and books\u2019<\/em>, but also to \u2018choir\u2019. Not sure what the connection really is, but the fact that Quire<\/em><\/strong> has eight tracks will probably be no coincidence.<\/p>\n With the help of Stephen Spencer<\/em><\/strong> on saxophone and treatments, Zane Trow<\/em> <\/strong>presents an attractive and varied atmospheric collection of works that he introduces with these words:
\u2018The simplest of these works have taken the most cajoling towards their intended form \u2026 dust in the breeze of a sonic moment \u2026 others are a textual gesture toward peculiar notions of sound as memory and evocation\u2019.<\/em> <\/p>\n