Recording: Ben Grossman

Artist: Ben Grossman

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #85), November 7, 2023.

Ben Grossman - [excerpt]

It's sometimes comforting to think that there's nothing new under the sun, and that so many sounds that one might think of — glitchy skips, heavy drones, and (as heard in this extract) Glass-ian repetition — as the product of modern technologies or compositional techniques are there to be found in an instrument that's several hundred years old. Often seen in these parts playing music from the pre-Baroque period in the Toronto Consort, in Ben Grossman's hands the hurdy-gurdy often sounds like a whole ensemble on its own, dipping in and out of the timestream.

You can check out this complete — and fantastic — set over on youtube:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona in the New Year (Tuesday, January 2nd) with sets from SOUP and battle milk.]