'Stanzas' or 'The Law of the Good Neighbour', by Henry Andersen

'Stanzas' or 'The Law of the Good Neighbour'

by Henry Andersen

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Henry Andersen is a Brussels-based visual artist and composer. Trained as a minimal and reductionist composer under the wings of Peter Ablinger, he moved from music into visual art, writing and sound performances.

His debut vinyl is a recording of the longrunning piece 'Stanzas' or 'the Law of the Good Neighbour'. On each side, a pair of his friends reads simultaneously from a list of words. The list is an unfinished result of a word game Andersen has been playing for several years. Stanzas... seems to be a precise text-sound composition, a liquid and elegant piece of concrete poetry that reveals the individual qualities of the voices and their interpersonal relation.

But what sounds like a hardcore conceptual and idealist composition has a lot more to it. Being an heir to a playful and prosaic Cagean and Ashleyan tradition, the list of words is a score that acts as a field for an infinite amount of possibilities.

Andersen documents some of these many possible outcomes, expressing an urge to be a human body in space, interrelated with others. The composer reveals on the record another face of conceptualism: as a material, personal and truly moving beauty.

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released May 24, 2017

300 copies
Text by Henry Andersen
Mastered by Christophe Albertijn
Recorded by David Stampfli
Printed by Gerard Herman & Henry Andersen
Design by rr-jw & Henry Andersen

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