Search - Steven Ricks (Composer), Hexnut, Scott Holden :: Steven Ricks: Young American Inventions

Steven Ricks' new release, "Young American Inventions", begins with an automated voice greeting the listener: "Hello, pay close attention, everything is ready, so lets begin". This quirky opening invites us into Ricks' conflicted relationship with technological affect, cliché and populism, underscoring questions about our culture's relationship to musical sound. Ricks combines several strains of the American compositional tradition, an awareness of found objects and found sounds, an academic modernist's approach to pitch and rhythm, and a minimalist's penchant for repetition with variation.