Joel Chadabe's 'Many Times ...' (the ellipsis is the name of the performer) is powerful, funny, lyrical, pensive, and dramatic, depending upon who is playing. The performers are Benjamin Chadabe (bowed cymbals and gongs), Chris Mann (recitation), David Gibson (cello), Jan Williams (conga, djembé, and hand-held percussion), and Esther Lamneck (tárogató), and they each play solo with different versions of Chadabe's software. In fact, the sounds are so striking that you may not notice the process.

But Chadabe is well known as a pioneer in interactive instruments and the music on this CD is a beautiful example of how it all works. In a performance, a performer playing an acoustic instrument or reciting a text is seated at a microphone and the performer's sounds are transformed by the electronics into multiple images and distributed through the performance space. The performer reacts to these transformations, as if they were replies, and the music continues as if in a conversation between performer and instrument. And what we hear from all of this is a magical flow of sound.

MP3 excerpts

Many Times Chris
Many Times David
Many Times Jan

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