SCOTT BENZEL- INVERSIONS I-IV FOR STRING QUARTET

AVAILABLE NOW from Numero Deux on iTunes, emusic, Amazon, and in select stores.

SCOTT BENZEL-BLAK BLOC (Numero Deux) 

The first release on Numero Deux Recordings is Blak Bloc by Los Angeles-based composer and artist Scott Benzel. The name of the piece derives from an organizational strategy  employed by anti-globalisation activists. Blak Bloc combines guitar feedback, guitar synthesizer, and string quartet to unusual effect: Blak Bloc Movement I is based on a raga-like drone. A recurring cello-and-feedback pulse alternates with glissandi and pizzicato cello slowly evoking melodic themes. Blak Bloc Movement II begins quietly and builds into massive glissandi and lows, ending in a flurry of noise and atonal strings.

photo by Mike Kelley

 Scott Benzel is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts with Michael Asher and Morton Subotnick and has collaborated with the artist Mike Kelley on the soundtrack to Kelley’s  seminal film/ art installation Day is Done (Compound Annex), as welll as on the soundtrack to Kelley’s installation at the Louvre, Profondeur Vertes. Most recently Benzel and Kelley collaborated on Dance Beats for Baby  featuring Baby Icky (Compound Annex).

For more information contact info@numerorecordings.com<