TIME OUT NEW YORK: So Percussion and Trollstilt
TIME OUT NEW YORK: So Percussion and Trollstilt
BY STEVE SMITH
"The music on Gardens, composed by Trueman, includes rustic folk melodies, gangly dances and pulse-oriented workouts on woodblocks and marimbas—as well as flowerpots, rocks and a wheelbarrow—interspersed with quirky narratives written by Jennifer Trueman (the composer’s sister), and read by her and Rinde Eckert. A DVD matches the music to images by painter Judy Trueman (the composer’s mother), computer-animated like a gallery full of Kandinsky canvases dancing to their own gaudy rhythms."