Solo Violin Improvisations

by Polly Bradfield

Solo Violin Improvisations cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Parachute
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:19
  • Community rating: 3.02/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Deeply embedded in the New York downtown avant-garde scene, the violinist recorded this uncompromising exercise in extreme acoustic improvisation. The completely unaccompanied performances reject traditional melody entirely, focusing instead on scraping, screeching, and percussive textures drawn from the instrument. It is an obscure, highly challenging artifact of radical late-70s free improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, avant-garde, atonal, instrumental, acoustic, unaccompanied-solo, piercing, improvised, experimental, minimal

Tracklist

  1. 1 (19:20)
  2. 1 (3:09)
  3. 2 (9:53)
  4. 3 (6:57)

Credits

  • Polly Bradfield - primary artist, violin, sleeve notes
  • Peter Kuhn - edited by

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