William Eggleston - Musik (CD)

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Native Memphian William Eggleston, 77, is widely regarded to be the most important photographer of the late 20th Century, but there is another side to him that took root in his Sumner, Mississippi childhood, where he discovered the piano in the parlour that ignited in him a lifelong passion for music.  

In the 1980s, Eggleston, who disdained digital cameras and modernity in general, became surprisingly fascinated with a synthesizer, the Korg O1/W FD, which had 88 piano-like keys. In addition to being able to emulate the sound of any instrument, it also contained a four-track sequencer that allowed him to expand the palette of his music, letting him create improvised symphonic pieces, stored on 49 floppy discs, encompassing some 60 hours of music from which this 13 track recording was assembled.  

The music - which he refers to as Musik, adopting the German spelling of his hero, JS Bach - is highly emotional, whether he's improvising a Bach-like organ fanfare out of whole cloth, using a Korg patch titled Guitar Feedback to create a dirge, or playing Lerner and Lowe'€™s On the Street Where You Live as a dramatic overture.

- CD album.