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Pylon Shadow Stenness

from Love is a Grasshopper Nearby by Vertical Foliage

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Vertical Foliage's debut "Love is a Grasshopper Nearby" explores the colours and haptics of interference patterns and spectrality created by the voices of Heloise, Gryphon, and his continuously bowed saw. Each performance is bound by specific frequency clusters; chord identities stamping each movement in the music. Within the constraints of pre-selected intervals, Vertical Foliage nimbly and sensually explores the textural and harmonic interplay in the evolving interactions among the voices.

"Love is a Grasshopper Nearby" was recorded while Tunstall-Behrens and Rue faced gazing at each other, their bodies relaxed and motionless, the saw acting as a kind of tamboura. The evocation of a third body or spirit through sustained sound. Prior to performance, attunement exercises involve visualizing and sounding corresponding colors, tones, and syllables for their bodies chakras. The system and sound of Vertical Foliage conjure up predecessors: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela harmonizing with a sine wave The Black Album (1969), Eliane Radigue's hyper-subtle music of emotional perception, Alvin Lucier's fascination with the artistic application of physics, Deep Listening explorations of Pauline Oliveros, flute drones of Mary Jane Leach, Folke Rabe's "What??", and contemporary kin like Sarah Davachi.

The pair were drawn to the acoustics of a former police academy in Mile End, London, a "sanctuary space" as the building awaits its uncertain fate. The music was further enhanced with an old-fashioned 300 kilo plate reverb.

"Love is a Grasshopper Nearby" features an original film of The Big Apple Circus (1987) shot on 35 mm. by Rue's father. It captures a moment of authenticity in circus, with a host of legendary international performers. The film draws out the theatrical and tribalistic aspects of Vertical Foliage.

Heloise Tunstall-Behrens also performs with Deep Throat Choir and Landshapes. Gryphon Rue performs in the audiovisual duo Rue Bainbridge, and is the author of Strange Attractor (published fall 2019 by Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa).

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from Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, track released March 27, 2020

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