We Are Legion, by Dorian Wallace/Tenth Intervention We Are Legion - Full Album We Are Legion is an immersive chamber work inspired by the hacktivist collective, Anonymous. Represented at the core of this work is the group's mission to uphold freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Anonymous actively fights against corporate, civic, and religious extremism and oppression. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. credits released November 5, 2016 We Are Legion music written by Dorian Wallace choreography by Jennifer McQuiston Lott film by Karen Nourse and Zachary Bennett recorded, mixed and mastered by Eric Hachikian percussion recorded by Nate Jasensky photos by Anthony Tafuro Recorded at Soundcat Productions Percussion recorded at TTO Studio Filmed at HappyLucky no.1, Crown Heights, Brooklyn The Tenth Intervention Ensemble is: Dorian Wallace, composer, piano, co-founder/artistic director Hajnal Pivnick, violin blue and yellow, co-founder/artistic director Hannah Levinson, viola Caleigh Drane, cello Kelley Barnett, flute Michael Eaton, tenor saxophone green Lathan G. Hardy, tenor saxophone magenta Carl Limbacher, bass Max Maples, drum set red Charlie Kessenich, drum set cyan Nathaniel Adams - voice yellow Maya Ben-Meir - voice red Danielle Buonaiuto - voice blue Adam Richardson - voice green Natsuki Arai, dancer Marissa Brown, dancer Stephanie Salts, dancer Jeremy Zapanta, dancer with special thanks to Liane Fredel some rights reserved Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Oh dear, I wanted to like this and on one level do but. You undoubtedly know your craft and its performance is top notch, however I expected something edgier. These pieces remind me strongly of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs in its mood and contemplativeness or Part or Feldman for that matter. That's not a bad thing if I want to simply sit back and chill. It didn't excite, incite, provoke or frighten me, unlike say Varese, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Cage or Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima [which scares the bejeezuz out of me every time]. I've seen Xenakis's Tetras induce a panic attack [my nephew]. I'm also a big Ligeti fan, especially his work for voices. So this is where I'm coming from. I'm not hearing anything anarchic here. There are no electronics, which to my mind is representative of the whole Anon digital culture. Nor are there any free or chance sections that I could discern that would be representative of anarchy per se. Some musique concrete could also be appropriate and for pure chaos check out Jean Dubuffet's work at the Avant Garde Project [link below]. Rather everything is ordered and precise. Once again that isn't a bad thing as such, it's just not what was expected given the presentation. Can I suggest maybe exploring the electronic treatment of instruments or of purely electronic elements to your composing? Explore the technology that's available for noise generation? Maybe listen to some 1st gen industrial like Nurse with Wound, SPK, MB or Cabaret Voltaire? Add some free sections and resolve them a-la Lutoslavski or Free Jazz [Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Pharoh Sanders, Yusef Lateef Albert Ayler Alice Coltrane]. Break the self imposed boundaries you are working within. Much of this stuff can be found on youtube. An excellent resource that I cannot recommend highly enough for exploring these things within the classical framework is the Avant Garde Project at the Internet Archive. Avant Garde Project : Avant Garde Project : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Now as far as Anonymous goes, in my experience it is inchoate. I've heard many things come out under the banner of allegedly being Anonymous, ranging from extreme left to extreme right. It is a largely meaningless appellation because of this. I for one do not associate anarchy which has fairly fixed, albeit contested, meaning with Anonymous. You may want to have a re-think about the Anon tag for your work. These are simply the opinions of a listener who doesn't know theory or even play an instrument. They are intended in the spirit of constructive criticism, not a slagging off simply because I was somewhat disappointed. You are always growing as an artist, or should be, so take on board whatever it is that will help you grow from what I've said and ditch the rest. Finally, thank you for sharing your work with us here,
Omfg, This Is the next thin o' checking up. Thank you for this brothers and sisters,we. Are a strange family indeed, but we stick together and if you out us on starvation wages or EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING OUR, small hand made societies within your shitty societys...prepare for wa
