Involution by Greg Bruce

This is a collection of tunes and improvisations I did last year in an attempt to develop a post-digital practice involving saxophone, feedback, and tape media.

I borrow the album name, Involution, from the book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. This word was recommended by anthropologists Myers and Hustak to best capture the entangled pushing and pulling of "organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with and alongside one another."

I felt like this was a guiding principle for my creative work over the past several years: that I wasn't seeking to use analogue devices to add "effects" to my saxophone but to integrate them, and all their noise and idiosyncrasies, into my setup to develop new techniques and sounds.

All tracks were recorded live off the floor in single takes from a single stereo feed. No overdubbing was used - additional parts in Then Triumph were triggered live from tape loops on the MT-50.

I will have a limited run of cassettes accompanying this release, all of which will be produced on second hand, Type I tapes that I have thrifted.

**If you live in Montreal and want a cassette but don't want to pay for shipping, simply pay $10 (or more) for a digital download and leave a message that you'd also like a tape!**

You can see performances of these tunes on my YouTube channel @gregthesquare4

Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts for supporting the development of this music.

Greg Bruce is a multifaceted saxophonist, improvisor, and composer from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As a musical anarchist who blurs the lines between classical, jazz, folk, and pop, Greg is equally comfortable playing with street bands, at academic conferences, in bars, or in concert halls.

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