Michael Pisaro: Sometimes CD review – US composer enjoys the silence

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(Wandelweiser)Wandelweiser music feels extra appealing at the moment. Maybe it’s because the grace and quiet, honest fragility is a tonic against shouty geopolitical absolutism. The US composer Michael Pisaro pinpoints his encounter with his Wandelweiser stylistic brethren in the early 1990s as the most decisive moment in his career: “This literally saved years of my compositional life.” The way Kunsu Shim, Antoine Beuger and Jürg Frey were thinking about s