Sigur Rs's ( ) (33 1/3),New

Sigur Rs's ( ) (33 1/3),New

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ReviewEthan Hayden painstakingly transcribes the eight untitled tracks on ( ) into a series of long vowel sounds and odd clusters of consonants in an attempt to diagram the syntax of this strange new tongue and figure out what the band might be saying (despite their best efforts not to say anything). Stephen M. Deusner, PitchforkProduct DescriptionWords like 'inspiring,' 'expansive,' and 'moving' are regularly used to describe Sigur Rs's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no titleor rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention being that listeners will fill in the parentheses with their own title, their own interpretation of the sounds on the record. The CD sleeve consists of twelve pages that are essentially blank, lacking song titles, liner notes or production credits. Instead, it contains only semitranslucent frosted images of abstract natural scenes (tree branches, clouds, etc.), on which the listener is free to inscribe their own notesor no notes at all. And then there are the lyrics, sung in a deliberately unintelligible tongue called 'Hopelandic' which the band invites listeners to interpret freely.Ethan Hayden's book doesn't try to fill in the gaps between the album's parentheses, but instead explores the ways in which listeners might attempt to do so. Examining the communicative powers of asemantic language, the book asks whether music can bring sense to nonsense. What happens to the voice when it stops singing conventional language: does it simply become another musical instrument, or is it somehow more 'human'? What role does space play on ( )? And how do we interpret music that we cannot possibly understand, but feel very deeply that we do?About the AuthorEthan Hayden is a composer and performer, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music at the University at Buffalo, US.

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