Excerpt from "Book"
by Will Redman
Will Redman is a musical instrument that scrambles and obfuscates the precarious limen of the composer-performer-audience compact. Scores employ fantastically unsystematic notation, inviting the beholder into a wilderness of interpretive self-sufficiency. Improvisations manifest as ostensible readings of invisible psycho-temporal texts. Sounds distend the sentient receptive sphere. Productions disseminated and discussed internationally through human, print and broadcast media. Organized performance units include Microkingdom (avant rock), Umbilicus (percussion quartet) and The Compositions (chamber music). PhD, SUNY Buffalo; teaching, Towson University; domicile, Baltimore, MD. www.willredman.com.
Originally appeared in the online supplement to the Beyond Category issue 47.1