Objects and humans in conversations, mystic reflections on the every day. These notion shape Ohio composer Brian Harnetty’s The Workbench, a work combining recordings of his late father with music and the sounds of items the elder Harnetty repaired.
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Brian Harnetty + Thomas Merton :: Words and Silences
Pairing musings of Cisteritan monk and writer Thomas Merton, recorded alone at his Kentucky hermitage in 1967, with magisterial modern classical compositions, Brian Harnetty’s Worlds and Silences, offers, to quote Merton, “the right kind of complexity…a subdued and deep awareness that everything is perplexed.”
Dao Strom and Brian Harnetty :: In Conversation
In this conversation, Brian Harnetty and Dao Strom talk about how the intersections of sound, language, music, memory, history, place, and practices of “listening”—to the past, to the present—fuel their respective interdisciplinary practices.