Press
"The electric guitar corner was
represented by David Beardsley's atmospheric "Around D" — operative
word "around." Beardsley played his maxi-fretted guitar through a
volume pedal, a looping device and other effects to create swirling
layers of meditative droning. Throbbing close tones made it a
vibration-oriented experience."
- Josef Woodard
LA
Times
April 29, 2003
"Beardsley
sculpts tones into overpowering moods...In the 17th century it was
widely believed that certain musical intervals had built-in emotional
connotations: the minor sixth sorrowful, the major seventh yearning.
Atonal modernists tried to pretend that that was all superstition, but
music like Beardsley's brings the whole issue up again in powerful
terms. Why was that squeezed minor ninth so sinister, and why was its
resolution down to the major seventh such a cathartic release—as much
of a release as the newly cleansed final theme of any Beethoven
symphony?
Such austere
music isn't for everyone - clearly - but in its glacial tension and
release it offered the essential outlines of symphonic form, stripped
of surface detail. And in such pure tunings, the dissonant elements
that, in Mozart, merely resolve politely, here actually shake the walls
and demand resolution."
-
Kyle Gann
the
Village Voice, New York City
October 7th, 2002
"David
Beardsley (of New York) plays a short piece of humming, layered tones
on his densely fretted electric guitar, bravely competing with the
cashieress, who, oblivious, loudly closes down the register. Pissed at
her, but we like Beardsley."
Tony
Mostrom
LA Weekly
May 17 - 23, 2002
"Microtonal GOD"
Downtown Music Gallery
"Catch
David at this intimate venue (Chama) before he's famous and you can't
get in to
see him... relaxing and cognitively stimulating!"
Reviews for
Sonic Bloom:
"Phenomenal is
one thought. Deep modern meditation tool is another."
Pat Pagano,
dir. Southeast Just Intonation Society, Gainesville, Fl.
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"This release
brings up a range of feelings and emotions within me, for what ever
reasons, but in terms of interesting releases for 1999, it rates with
many a great recording I have been fortunate enough to have heard. "
Hans Stoeve,
Power Spot 89.7FM, Sydney, Australia
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"It's
fundamentally static, but I can listen to literally hours of the
stuff..."
Joseph
Pehrson, Composers Concordance, NYC.
Read a review
of Temple in the Ear (2000) by Bob Lodge --> here
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