(Editor’s note: I had forgotten that I had heard the composer himself perform “?Corporel”.)
A one-man band of surreal sound // REVIEW: Avant-garde musician Vinko Globokar offers a survey of his experimental works, with humor attached.
By TIMOTHY MANGAN
Published: 11/24/2000
If you haven’t seen or heard Vinko Globokar you’ve never seen or heard anything quite like him. The French-Slovenian composer-trombonist, who appeared in the Music and Media Building at University of California, Irvine, Tuesday night, is a one-man band of the European avant-garde. If the world were a painting by Salvador Dali, he’d be the street musician.
Trombone is his nominal instrument. But he rarely plays it in a conventional way. Instead, he uses it as a tool to make an encyclopedia of sounds, a rich catalog of sci-fi sonorities that you wouldn’t imagine possible, usually accomplished without electronic additives.
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