"The composer Sabisha Friedberg writes acoustic or electronic pieces specifically for places of performance and recording, transmitting an awareness of the physical space where the music is happening, and a fascination with the low frequencies. “The Hant Variance” is the second release on Distributed Objects, the new publishing and recording imprint created at Brooklyn’s performance space Issue Project Room, where Ms. Friedberg was artist in residence in 2013.
It’s a four-movement piece she wrote and realized with Peter Edwards. Both musicians work with oscillators, analog synthesizers, field recordings and some kind of subwoofer setup that helps the sound shift directions. It’s a slow, quiet listen, with long crescendos and shifting ambient backdrops — sounds suggesting, say, a choppy wind as heard behind a thin wall, or a continuous cello note played in an airplane hangar."