BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Shards LP

Shards is a oneness of performance and transformation, transformation as performance. As Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore play, BlankFor.ms records micro fragments of time and sends them back to his collaborators sped up, slowed down, reversed, broken into ever tinier grains of data and smeared into a sparkling blur. Moran and Gilmore receive glimpses into their immediate past, or even further back in time, like they're playing into a broken mirror - not just cracked in it's visual plane, but in the sense of it's shards shattering time and light, showing them past and future. Shards continues the sonic exploration the trio began in 2023 with Refract, which The New York Times praised for working “across medium and style, with composed elements and prepared loops.” Shards reflects a deepening and maturation of the group’s collaborative language, pushing further into the real-time design and construction of musical events.