Bleep

Moto Perpetuo. “Perpetual motion”. The term in the musical lexicon denotes a concession to the impossible; imagine a musician at the piano keyboard repeating notes of equally short length for as long as they’re able, knowing that the act is gestural towards a concept flawed by spacial-temporal incompatibility. Benjamin Kilchhofer and Michael Anklin, synthesist and percussionist respectively, take endless exchanges of energy as their starting point, as Kilchhofer feeds Anklin’s restless playing through various auditory manipulators. Moto Perpetuo is a work of fiery electroacoustic mastery, an eloquent reply to the question of (im)permanence that has haunted the planet since the dawn of time.