The
Draperies improvise with no set program, no expressed strategies, but
not exactly freely. There's a real sense of shared responsibility
here to make music for a listener to listen to (not for the players to
play or the players to listen to; at least not until they're done
playing). There's a lot of music here: noise and pitch; high and
low; short and long; thin (like a razor or a wisp of smoke from a blown
out candle) and thick (like a pig-foot stew or a magic marker); not
much fast and slow; all manner of attacks; lots of dynamics (but not
too much loud and soft). This is music with intensities that is
utterly not about intensity. The Draperies' music sounds
nothing like folk music; but it feels like folk music.