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Aaron Cassidy
12+ albums
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Aaron Cassidy is a composer currently based in Huddersfield, England. His music is gaining increasingly widespread exposure, with performances in the United States, Mexico, Austria, the Netherlands, Croatia, England, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, and Australia. His music can be characterized by an uncompromising dedication to instability and fragmentation. The received wisdom of performance practice is continually questioned and reasserted, often with intentionally unpredictable results. His recent works have experimented largely with the interaction of a performer with his/her instrument, introducing a decoupling of component performance techniques. Fracture is prioritized in timbral, structural, and rhythmic strata in such a way that resulting aural units are themselves only the byproducts or collisions of independent (and often cyclic) musical processes. The musical score becomes, then, both the locus of processual sediment and concurrently the cause of significant deterritorialization on the part of performer and listener alike. Recent projects have included significant research of linguistic, semantic, and spatial theories, focusing in particular on heightened states of dislocation (as in Jakobson's analysis of aphasics or Deleuze & Guattari's writings on smooth and haptic space). http://www.aaroncassidy.com/ User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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The Crutch of Memory
932Second String Quartet
713I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips
524Asphyxia
515Metallic Dust
496songs only as sad as their listener
457A/grammatical study for three (quasi-)independent players [2002/2008]
448String Quartet (2002)
439A Way of Making Ghosts (2018-20): Self-portrait, 1996
4310What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile
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