Etude Begone Badum

The album Etude Begone Badum presents works by composers Alvin Lucier, Marko Ciciliani and Michael Pisaro, linked together by Norwegian Lars Petter Hagen's poetic, electro-acoustic intermezzi. The works employ personal, experimental and conceptual approaches to sound production, suggesting the development of a "post-percussive" practice - the topic of HÃ¥kon Stene's ongoing Artistic Research Project 'Ceci n'est pas un tambour ' developing the role of the multidisciplinary performer. This development eschews traditional playing techniques, substituting an open-ended concept wherein any sound producing object may be played in any manner imaginable.