Hersch - Hersch / Images from a Closed Ward Format:CD In the HardStudios Winterthur the

In the HardStudios Winterthur the trio recorded this new album over two days

the third movement is naturally more literary: the cry of Jeremiah

This first of the sets addresses the years from 1927 to 1934

or using signal processing to experiment with sound being created in the moment

but the music's not too recognizably lo-fi or idiosyncratic

Hersch - Hersch / Images from a Closed Ward Format:CD In the HardStudios Winterthur theComposer Michael Hersch's string quartet, performed here with absolute commitment by the New York based FLUX Quartet, is inextricably connected to his friendship with the late American artist Michael Mazur. More specifically, Hersch was inspired by a series of etchings and lithographs Mazur did of inmates in a Rhode Island mental asylum in the 1960's. In his musical depiction of these images, Hersch writes music that is at times aggressive and