Completely unexpectedly, after a morning of Alva Noto, my iTunes deftly began playing Alvin Curran’s Canti Illuminati. I haven’t listened to it in probably years.
If you too have not heard it in a while then you are also missing out. It still sounds fresh, strong, and experimental.
Curran says, “Canti Illuminati, was of course my early tribute to the human voice, as the most natural source of music known. … I always told my students: don’t forget! when the electricity gets turned off, you always have your voice/ your entire body as a basic musical instrument.”
