Maximizing the Audience
by Soft Verdict
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1985
- Label: Les Disques du Cr茅puscule
- Country: Belgium
- Length: 18:50
- Community rating: 3.56/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Originally composed for an avant-garde theatrical production, this project acts as an early, crucial vehicle for Wim Mertens' distinctively European approach to minimalism. 'Maximizing the Audience' blends the repetitive, rhythmic pulse of American minimalists like Steve Reich with a deeply melancholic, romantic chamber music aesthetic. The album relies heavily on intricate piano patterns and soaring, wordless vocal countertenor lines, setting the stage for Mertens' expansive solo career.
Genres
Descriptors: repetitive, acoustic, minimal, piano, ensemble, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Maximizing The Audience (Excerpt) (7:03)
- Whisper Me (11:47)
Credits
- Soft Verdict - primary artist, performer
- Marc Bonne - percussion
- Hans Fran莽ois - piano
- Dirk Descheemaeker - soprano saxophone
- Geoffrey Maingart - violin
- Ine van den Bergh - voice
- Valerie Koolemans-Beijnen - voice
- Monique Laperre - cello