| Symbol Systems | ||||
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| Released | 1995 | |||
| Recorded | November 22, 1995 | |||
| Studio | Baby Monster, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 60:51 | |||
| Label | No More | |||
| Producer | Alan Schneider | |||
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Symbol Systems is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp which was recorded in 1995 and became the first release on No More, a label founded by producer Alan Schneider. It was the first solo piano released by Shipp but was recorded five months after Before the World, a live performance which was released later.
He was approached by the producer to offer up some ideas for it, so Shipp later presented Schneider with what he had in mind "scribbled on a napkin." Spending one day in the recording studio, Shipp manufactured a recording of thirteen "compact miniatures of ideas imposed on a structure."[1]
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DESCRIPTION: The name "Perkins" carved in stone. Below a gothic tower, a boy navigates with a cane. TORREY: Children who have multiple disabilities including blindness and deaf/blindness have special challenges in developing communication skills. And to support that, we need to find other ways, multisensory ways, to help them achieve those goals of relating to their peers, establishing communication with families, expressing their needs, being able to say, "Hey, I'm thirsty, I need a drink." How about, "I need to use the bathroom," or to make a choice about what games and things that they want to play with? What's their favorite activity? And the way that we'll get to know that is by offering these children choices. Let's make another choice, Jen. DESCRIPTION: In a video clip, a teacher presents a young girl who is blind two tangible symbol cards. TORREY: Robby the rabbit, or we do the hokey pokey? DESCRIPTION: One has a small stuffed rabbit attached, the other, a wooden block with a hole in the middle. The girl chooses the rabbit, and is shown playing with the large rabbit toy. TORREY: The difficulty arises when so many of the students that we're working with here can't just say what they want. They don't have verbal language. So in order to give them a way... a means to express themself, we have to find other routes, and something that we found really, really works is using tangible symbols with these students. DESCRIPTION: Fade to black.
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek says about the album that "is a recommended place for those who are interested but unfamiliar with Shipp as a pianist, improviser, and composer to discover why, along with Marilyn Crispell, he is the most exciting pianist in music."[2] In an article for the Boston Phoenix, Norman Weinstein states "Pensive, moody, full of flinty melodies that remind you Shipp's classical roots are firmly planted in Russian soil, these compositions haunt and unsettle."[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Matthew Shipp
- "Clocks" – 7:04
- "Harmonic Oscillator" – 3:51
- "Temperate Zone" – 1:56
- "Symbol Systems" – 4:50
- "The Highway" – 6:09
- "Self-Regulated Motion" – 3:20
- "Frame" – 5:12
- "Flow Of Meaning" – 7:14
- "Dance Of The Blue Atoms" – 3:25
- "Bop Abyss" – 4:37
- "Nerve Signals" – 3:33
- "Algebraic Boogie" – 2:16
- "The Inventor Pt. 1" – 4:17
- "The Inventor Pt. 2" – 3:07
Personnel
References
- ^ Matthew Shipp: Traversing The Regions Of The Mind by Lyn Horton at All About Jazz
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Matthew Shipp – Symbol Systems: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
- ^ Pianist/composer Matthew Shipp gives jazz a geological swing by Norman Weinstein at Boston Phoenix
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