How Miraculous Things Happen used a 23 note 11 limit just intonation tuning. This new work is a bit different the Conlon Nancarrow influenced work I heard at Experimental Intermedia in December '95. Gone are rhythmic ratios, now replaced with a more minimal approach. The collective improvisation More. Apes was performed by Harvard Project4NewMusic.
Pretty metal sounds.
Then the joined two other performers sitting cross legged on the floor where they played portable cd players. What the audience heard was a nice post-industral, dark ambient din. The improvisation ended when one of the performers got up and started a series of boxes lined along the edge of the stage. To end this marathon evening and the MicroMay '97 fest was the Catler Bros. performing two pieces from their Crash Landing cd. Jon Catler's Spiritual Brother is a slow modal rocker with lots of room for him to stretch out and improvise.