With experience in soundtracking films and performing in specific outdoor sites, Brooklyn composer Kyle Bobby Dunn's work is much more scenic as opposed to possessing a countenance. Several environmental factors have the ability to influence one's interpretation of Dunn's pieces. His latest cassette release, entitled Pour Les Octaves, comfortably resides in a state of equilibrium, and serves as an appropriate counterpart to the two-disc A Young Person's Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn.
This foregoing balance is suited well on the cassette format; sides A and B-- a prelude and an afterthought. Tied together by structural similarity, both compositions are understated. Beginning with "PSR Music For Jennifer Schull," (which, as the title suggests, was composed on a Yamaha PSR) these 17 minutes repose in a breezy milieu as gentle phrases wrap themselves in a quilt of sustained hums. On the following "Remnants" the climate grows colder, the frequencies are elevated and the source of the orchestration slightly gains synthesis.
Channeling the minimalist works of composers like Basinski, Kowalsky-- and dare I say-- Eno, Kyle Bobby Dunn's offerings on Pour Les Octaves are contained and content rather than restrained and timid. As the title suggests, the octaves are at the heart of this cassette, and its underlying sonic depth corresponds with the listening atmosphere. For such a release that is devoid of personal temperament, Dunn maintains an intimate interaction with the listener through his music.
[Kyle Bobby Dunn Myspace]
[Buy Pour Les Octaves from Peasant Magik]
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