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Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form

by Max Kutner

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about

This music is an interpretation of several disparate thoughts I was having simultaneously in late-2012. The title comes from Jean Baudrillard's collection of observations on American cities and spaces. I was struck by some of the points covered in this collection and immediately found several ways to apply techniques based upon those points to my own creative work. It was and is popular for the public to raise both virtuosic performance standards and rigid intellectual conceptions highest as markers of quality and this terrified me as an inescapable condition of trying to draft anything without being inaccessible by a large swath of perfectly able-bodied potential listeners. In other words, over-exclusivity was something I never wanted to embrace in my work. When coupled with all of the other idiomatic pigeonholing of the electric guitar by pop culture and media, the task of both composing and playing often felt impossibly pre-determined and stifling to me.

"There is no seduction here, for seduction requires a secret."

Thus, with this piece, I sought to address these concerns by incorporation of opposing techniques with the Baudrillard text as a spiritual base. Where the electric guitar was often utilized in short song-forms I decided to use a vast long arc. Where the electric guitar is typically treated with various amounts of studio effects, here the only real effects were limited to distortions and slight reverb. Where the language of academic composition had leaned toward complexity and hyper-control, I decided to utilize chance by having 15 randomly assigned sets of rules for playing a two-page melodic fragment where all 15 sets would be doubled and performed simultaneously. The Baudrillard text "disaffection finds its pure form in the barrenness of speed" formed my underlying question: would the initial melody leave the largest impression on the listener or would it be lost among the dense chatter of all the guitars at once. Regardless of this history of the piece, it is my fondest hope that listeners will find their own unique meaning and appeal beyond that which is outlined in my explanation.

"For the desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of our culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance."

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REVIEWS:

"Our friends at Silber Records, the North Carolina based purveyors of everything drone, ambient and experimental, deliver Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form, the new album from Max Kutner. The 10 tracks represent sections of a unified piece that explores the depth of guitar drone. If one could image Brian Eno and Robert Fripp producing a guitar playing offspring, this is likely what the resulting music would sound like. Kutner takes his unique vision of guitar drone, finds the edge and then stays there with devastatingly profound consequences. With haunting sounds, sharp attack and melodic overtones, this could well be the best guitar drone music yet recorded. An absolute must have." - Florshime Zipper Boots Blog
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"As an author, I am attuned to the title of a thing. If you happen to be able to get past this album’s peculiar title then you will discover that Max Kutner’s ten-track guitar experiment Disaffection Finds Its Perfect Form makes for one of the more intriguing new writing compliments of 2017.

This album is not comprised of ambient music. At least it’s not ambient music in the traditional sense of sanguine tones, lush layers and a beautiful crescendo. Kutner’s work is more striking than that. If I close my eyes and try to visualize the music, I see it as a series of angular strokes and slashes.

The tracks on this album are not named. They gradually build into one another. Each one acts as a movement within a greater cycle of ever deepening guitar chords with heavier layers. By the end everything crashes into a wall of exquisite and disorienting noise. Round about the time when Kutner has dragged his listener toward that tenth and final movement, the whole structure has fallen apart in a crush of feedback and noise.

In spite of the noise there is something meditative in Kutner’s ambient style. His sound isn’t so much chaos as threatened chaos. Rarely do any of the songs overwhelm. They simply involve. Like a reader in the hands of a master author there is a lot left to the imagination." - Erick Mertz, Music for Writers.

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released September 8, 2017

Electric Guitars - Max Kutner

Recording/Mixing/Co-Producer - Brian Saia
Mastering - Daniel Eaton
Co-Producer - Max Kutner
Studio - Spiderhouse Studios
Design - Eron Rauch

All music composed by Max Kutner (ASCAP)
All music published by Maladept Music (ASCAP)

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Max Kutner New York, New York

Max Kutner is a guitarist/composer currently based in Brookyln, NY.

Max has previously performed and/or recorded with the Magic Band (Captain Beefheart), Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ulrich Krieger, Alphonso Johnson, Don Preston, Lili Haydn, Oingo Boingo and many others. ... more

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