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Kieran Daly, Sam Weinberg

Kieran Daly Live Unison and Unison Continued (LP)

Label: Stern Records

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

In process of stocking: Releases late May 2026

€22.60
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Live Unison and Unison Continued is the latest collaborative effort from American composer-performers Kieran Daly and Sam Weinberg. Unison marks the fourth album released by the duo since 2022 with this release documenting the second live recorded performance.

As shown in Demo (2023) and Four Improvisations (2024), Unison functions as a first principle for the organization of improvisational behavior, allowing for complex overlapping pattern morphologies to result from this simple textural principle. "Play together in unison but without knowing what each other will play" might be the pithy version of describing this practice to the uninitiated. The improvisational texture is further determined through prior mutual agreement on pitch range, register, and basic rhythmic subdivisions (quarter, half, eighth), though conflicts about their possibly-shifting definitions of intonation, pulse, transposition, etc. may emerge throughout performance. Thus, a strange game of follow the leader; the leader is unexpectedly supplanted at any moment and sometimes neutralized by an eerily coincidental tessellation. The music facilitates coincidence by way of the rigorously awry. It's as if Paula and Bridgette Powers played microtonal scales together under near-constant metric modulation on woodwind and guitar.

Details
Cat. number: AMS-5
Year: 2026