Discord Aggregate Discography of CDs

Discord Aggregate music CDs "Discord Aggregate is a San Francisco based group of multimedia based experimental artists. "Some may remember their previous release The Attack of the Absolute Zeros (a jazz non-opera) from 1997, reviewed in issue #14. "The Texture of the Sky is an even more ambitious project, described in its own liner notes as "...an interactive novel in which you are the main character." One might imagine this album as six distinct pieces or themes, plus an epilog, broken into 31 pieces and then scrambled, much like a movie with six parallel plots that somehow manage to work together. "The pieces stretch the boundaries of art and music, fusing spoken theatrical ideas ...

Discord Aggregate discography The Attack of the Absolute Zeros had been written and recorded only months after A. Molotkov, S.B. Reda, and Pamela Zero formed Discord Aggregate. Although ideas showed a commending level of maturity, the album relied on session musicians. By mid-1998, S.B. Reda had come back to music and Molotkov was learning keyboards, violin, and percussion. Therefore The Texture of the Sky (released in July 2001) became an autarkical effort. Consequently it shows a deeper integration of its literary and musical aspects, but also a more complex, even twisted structure that makes it more difficult to get into than the generally linear plot of the previous CD. The Texture of the Sky is based on an interactive novel by Molotkov and Reda. The plot can be summed up in one sentence: the sky wants you to dream, you want to wake up. The album is comprised of six vocal and music works split into ...