“The Resonance Canons” by Christopher Tignor sounds like something that might have come out on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label in the 90s. It is tightly composed but feels spontaneous. The track is over eleven minutes long but because its sounds and dynamics are organic driven by Tignor’s prepared piano and violin, and his tasteful use of electronics, it feels like you’re on a journey through a sacred space in your mind and plumbing psychological spaces you’ve neglected. The glittering melody halfway through the song is the sound of personal illumination after a passage through personal darkness. Music with similar emotional resonance can be brooding but this song sounds like some of the heaviness that weights on so many people right now with the state of culture, politics and the environment, a persistent concern mixed with hope. As the track progresses into its last chapter, spare textural melodies and low end swells accent a sense of uncertainty about the future even as chimes and the constant, beat loses its tonal quality into pure minimal percussion like a sense of acceptance of the pervasive sense of the pervasive tentative mood about our future potential as a species. Deeply emotional stuff from a guy who has been steeped in the worlds of avant-garde and modern classical music not to mention his job as a software engineer for Google but maybe that’s the background that helps in putting together a complex and moving piece such as this. The song is a part of the forthcoming album A Light Below due out on Western Vinyl on 10/11/19. You can listen to the track on Soundcloud and follow Christopher Tignor at the links below.
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