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Michael Byron's title piece, InchFabric for String Noise,Inch performed by NYC's String Noise (violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, deemed InchNew York's most daring violin duoInch by InchTimeOut New YorkInch), is a wildly virtuosic two-movement work, wherein intense continuous activity shares space with an overarching sense of motionlessness. The composer characterizes it as a Inchsound object... marked by extreme polyrhythmic complexity and intricate contrapuntal textures.Inch Closing the album is the rich texture of Byron's double bass quartet InchDragon Rite,Inch performed by James Bergman, in which are heard occasional quarter-tone inflections as the piece slowly surges and ebbs. Critic Julian Cowley, writing recently for InchThe Wire,Inch called Michael Byron Inchone of those contemporary composers who can justifiably be classed as crucial.Inch
