Weser Kurier - Bremen, 19. Januar 2009

Peace explorers in music

…The new works however offered a different sound world. From a musical point of view, the most interesting work of the evening was “Transfiguration”, for trombone, live-electronics and tape, by John Palmer. The composer renounces both any kind of personal style and a central reference. Indeed, the work retains a clear inner system and structure while avoiding a prevailing logic. Palmer creates a network of heterogeneous sound-events around the trombone that are both all-embracing and fragmentary at the same time.

Michael Pitz-Grewenig (translation by Marc Sinclair)

Patrick Crossland, trombone; Joachim Hein and John Palmer, electronics. -