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Practitioners of static music are faced with an unusual dilemma. There comes a point at which the players must decide either to do something else or to keep doing the same thing. Strictly speaking, that’s nothing new, of course, but among the wave of musicians creating improvised but barely changing music, that point is stretched and magnified to new levels.
Strange Love, Müller’s collaboration with guitarist Oren Ambarchi and soundmaker Phillip Samartzis, follows a similar dramatic arc. Müller is a quiet percussionist, generally employing small objects amplified with contact mikes and electronically altered, although recently he has also been credited with iPod. Static and drone fill the first 10 minutes, building with an odd momentum. The piece becomes increasingly active for the next 10 minutes, until it breaks with a start. Then voices appear under an unexpected flurry of motion. It ends somewhere near where it began, though with a much more mysterious edge.
