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“It’s music where nothing happened. It’s the kind of music somebody
might write in Adelaide, Australia. Nothing happened.” – Morton Feldman
Theatre is De la Catessen’s second venture into the archive of Jon Dale.
Originally released in a tiny CDr edition of 50 copies on Tristes
Tropiques in 2019, Theatre now re-appeares in an edition of 150
glass-mastered CDs.
Theatre sees Jon Dale eschewing the hearthwarm drones of his previous
album on de la Catessen, Last Blues, and dwelling upon an elusive aural
concept: a limbo. Theatre hums with an occupied silence, heightened by
scattered expectant sounds: a door opens or closes; muffled voices
murmur nearby. As almost nothing continues to happen, the listener
occupying the silence seems to hover at the edge of (non)existence.
It’s tempting to classify Theatre as a purely conceptual listening
experience, or to compare it to listening to someone who is in the quiet
act of listening to something else, just our of earshot. But at its
heart, Theatre is a simple and elegant manifestation of the dichotomy
that dynamises minimalism: how little of something – versus how much of
nothing – must be.
