Written in 1979 and premiered in 1980, Gay Guerrilla is one of the best examples of Eastman’s proto-minimalist compositions, made up of drones and phasing loops that gradually go in and out of sync to produce a hypnotic convergence of texture and timbre as he craftly modulates tempo and formal structure.
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Wild Up :: Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence
Julius Eastman was a minimalist maverick. Wild Up is a group of Los Angeles-based musicians who have anthologized Eastman’s works since 2021. In their fourth installment, The Holy Presence, Wild Up lands on Eastman’s final compositions, ones that reflect on religiosity and resistance.
Julius Eastman :: Femenine
“… wild, grand, delirious, demonic, an uncontainable personality surging into sound ,” wrote Alex Ross in his January essay about Julius Eastman for The New Yorker. Though he died in 1990, Eastman’s work has steadily amassed a following in the years since. In 2016, the […]