{"id":1427,"date":"2016-11-04T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:06:10","slug":"200-words-slight-at-that-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/11\/200-words-slight-at-that-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Words: <em>Slight At That Contact<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slight At That Contact<\/em> featured at 200 Words!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">There\u2019s a fascinating mix of distance and closeness in Billy Gomberg\u2019s music. His pieces involve multiple layers between original sound and final effect, which gives them an underwater aura, more like extended ripples than direct hits. Yet each one of the eight beguiling tunes on <i>Slight At That Contact<\/i>\u00a0has parts that are clear and present enough that you could practically reach out and touch them. It\u2019s cliche to talk about music as a weaving of textures, but it\u2019s also hard not to think of Gomberg\u2019s work that way. He structures tracks by shifting degrees of blur and clarity like notes arranged on a musical staff.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"post text\">\n<div class=\"narrow\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There\u2019s also something physically present about the arcs in the music on <i>Slight At That Contact. <\/i>You can practically feel them progressing, unfolding, coalescing. The movement is thoroughly patient and considered, yet it connects on a gut level. It\u2019s music that stirs more than it impresses, rings a tuning fork in your core rather than a neural path in your brain. Of course, <i>Slight At That Conact <\/i>works on an intellectual plane too, and I\u2019d be happy to think about it for days on end. But mostly I like the way it moves me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/t:JGITzE3BwvL-o75XFFZq8w\/152555638730\/v2\" data-did=\"0b8653207d000e91b1d30f61da05875615c37121\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/the-out-door\/152555638730\/200-words-billy-gomberg\">https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/the-out-door\/152555638730\/200-words-billy-gomberg<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/post.js?_v=38df9a6ca7436e6ca1b851b0543b9f51\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slight At That Contact featured at 200 Words! There\u2019s a fascinating mix of distance and closeness in Billy Gomberg\u2019s music. His pieces involve multiple layers between original sound and final effect, which gives them an underwater aura, more like extended ripples than direct hits. Yet each one of the eight beguiling tunes on Slight At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,26],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-release","category-review","tag-200-words","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1432,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/11\/omgvinyl-slight-at-that-contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":1427,"position":0},"title":"OMGVinyl: Slight At That Contact","author":"billy gomberg","date":"November 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via\u00a0http:\/\/www.omgvinyl.com\/billy-gomberg-slight-at-that-contact-lp\/ One great thing about Gomberg\u2019s work, is his use of the room. 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