Search - Ingram Marshall, Cheryl Bensman Rowe :: Ingram Marshall: Three Penitential Visions; Hidden Voices

It is nearly impossible to describe the music of Ingram Marshall, except to say that he employs a wide range of recorded sounds--nature sounds, bells, gongs--and he uses various tape looping techniques to come up with the eeriest sounds ever recorded. By molding these techniques into rising and falling tone clusters, these sounds actually begin to make sense. Three Penitential Voices (1986) was originally a performance piece and Hidden Voices (1989) employs some of the same effects, but he also uses female voices. If Marshall keeps this up, he just may invent a whole new music. --Paul Cook