Phill Niblock was notoriously resistant to analyses of his art.
The composer and filmmaker, who passed away this week at 90, made the purest form of minimalism. His musical compositions consist of ultra-extended notes with no rhythmic components other than dynamic swells and recessions, existing outside of tonality and time; and his films mainly focus on non-narrative depictions of manual labor as a study in movement, nothing more or less.
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