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Collective Endurance

by Phong Tran & Neil Beckmann

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Written and recorded in a pandemic year when we have individually and societally experienced deep, prolonged, and unequally shared loss, Phong Tran’s “Collective Endurance” explores a feeling of “hyper predictability…getting longer and longer in a sense of stasis.” The piece uses a small amount of material, shifting chords in predictable patterns while the shifts themselves mirror our more static lives: still changing, but unevenly, inconsistently, and often without warning. The strictly limited amounts of musical and visual material gives us the space to focus on the shifting sense of visual density and space between chord changes, the percussive, extraneous sounds from strumming both individual notes and muted strings together, and the slight timbral changes from the inherent unpredictability of distortion and in a human playing repeated notes.

All proceeds go towards to the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
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released April 2, 2021

Composition, video, album art and mixing by Phong Tran

Performance, recording and mixing by Neil Beckmann

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Neil Beckmann Brooklyn, New York

Neil Beckmann is a guitarist and other plucked string player based in Brooklyn.

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