Video: Strumming Music for the Bournville Carillon 2010

I hope you like the two or three notes on these three CDs. If not, you're in for almost two hours of hell. Back in the early '70s, New York composer Charlemagne Palestine steered minimalism in a direction he called "strumming." Two notes are batted back and forth rapidly, sometimes adding another to pair up with the higher one, until a strange overtone is achieved. The Brussels-based label Sub Rosa has secured three recordings of pieces that have otherwise been forgotten since the me decade, and released them on a three-CD set under the title Strumming Music. The...