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john hudak: highway cd

Newest work from this master of reductive minimalism involving a sound of exceedingly banal character: traffic. Yet instead of concentrating upon its ineffable drone or sustained qualities, Hudak has extracted from his recordings made on an overpass a transient sound which is then stretched, broken apart, and bubbles in sublime fashion across the stereo field in a vacuum of pure silence. The result is nothing short of spectacular and affecting -- a calm meditation juxtaposed in almost ironic opposition to the furious rumble and freneticism implied by its source.


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