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Derek Piotr
Grunt

Album US 2018 on DPSR label
Electronic and Spoken Word (Noise, Glitch, Modern Classical)

A grunt. That most primal and animalistic of utterances. The new project by Derek Piotr, his eighth solo record and a set of short-form brutalist shards of human-digital noise, is named for this sound. Had Xenakis bought a laptop in 1999, he may have produced something comparable to Grunt and its posthuman #voicenoise aesthetic. Yet this is a wholly unique piece of work. As with Xenakis, Piotr takes recognisably analogue sounds – particularly the voice, but also drawing on acoustic instrumentation and found-sounds from nature – and reconstructs them into 21 intricate ‘electroacoustic’ miniatures. Yet Piotr is less interested in dissolving these boundaries between electric and acoustic than he is in hybridising the organic and the digital. Grunt is subversively queer in its posthuman composition. While there is an undoubted extension of the pulsing soundscapes introduced on 2016’s Drono, the excited percussive joy that drove 2017’s Forest People Pop is present here too. These pieces do not drift or unfold gently, as on Drono. Instead, they animate, collapse and morph incessantly, their shifting mechanics on full display, evoking Dada sculpture or surrealist cinema. With the exception of the final track, a reworked version of ‘Redirect’ by the legendary Kevin Drumm, every piece on Grunt (mastered by the brilliant Stephan Mathieu) is under three minutes in length – amplifying their jarring sonic distinctions.

     
Musicians
PortraitDerek Piotr voc, US
composed by, producer, performer, album by
PortraitJason Boada ,
violin
PortraitKevin Drumm g, syn, *1970 US
remix, piano, synthesizer
Producers
Lyster Periotto design
Stephan Mathieu mastered by
Baron Lanteigne photography
Kyle Montemurro photography
Composers
Derek Piotr
Album Tracks   
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1Voice IIDerek Piotr1:28
2DZDerek Piotr1:37
3DespotDerek Piotr2:32
4XADerek Piotr2:24
5Violin IDerek Piotr2:05
6BoardsDerek Piotr2:10
7CallsourceDerek Piotr1:10
8GruntDerek Piotr0:37
9LetDerek Piotr2:00
10Voice IDerek Piotr1:40
11Repeating BloomDerek Piotr1:46
12Violin IIDerek Piotr0:52
13Earth EditDerek Piotr2:13
14RedirectDerek Piotr1:25
15HVACDerek Piotr1:42
16PureDerek Piotr1:23
17AntsDerek Piotr0:49
18Main BodyDerek Piotr1:06
19JuneDerek Piotr1:05
20KoliDerek Piotr1:35
21 Redirect (Redirected by Kevin Drumm)Derek Piotr3:30

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