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REVIEW: BRILLANT MUSIC INFINITY GRADIENT
St. Thomas Church was host to an extraordinary one-night concert recently. Infinity Gradient, composed by Tristan Perich, was an otherworldly experience of celestial proportions. Incandescently surreal and magically sci-fi at moments; I felt everything from turbulent fear to sky-climbing spiritual vibration as James McVinnie played with ardent ease on the magnificent organ of the great 5th avenue church. Presented by impresario Death of Classical founder Andrew Ousley and his crew, this unrestrained trip in the cool darkness in which golden candle lights decorated the alter was different. The composition was a million things in a one-hour-long performance. Time stood still as though we were orbiting in some strange netherworld of unique soundscaping. Stagnant in one perfect tone at times, then graduating into delicate yet sweetly played flutist nuanced music that graduated to more ominous engaging tones. It was a mediative tour de force between the composer, the musician, and the instrument. Each audience member imbibed this experience of layered switching of tones and vibrations. Sometimes scaping into climbing and brightening hues of sound while at other moments interspersing a tinny ET spaceman equation, then graduating to what seemed like entry points for a spaceship to land on the church altar. There were moments of fog horns beckoning to sailors coming in from the stormy sea, while others that…
