Mark Wastell Vibra #2 Longbox Recordings CD-R Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $11.00 In addition to running the Sound 323 shop, Mark Wastell is one of the instigators for New London Silence, an ethos of reductionism that attempts to destabilise the divisions between the academic approaches of improvisation and composition. Through an extreme attention to detail and restrained pacing, Wastell, et al. focus upon the phenomenological aspects of sound through studied improvisations, bridging the modernist forces of AMM and Morton Feldman. Vibra #2 stands as Mark Wastell’s second commemorative piece to Roger Sutherland, the late founding member of Morphogenesis and original owner of the tam-tam that Wastell solely used for this recording. As Wastell gently modulates the attack of his percussive tappings upon the gong, he produces cascading surges of metallic overtones and rasping timbres which ripple in decaying harmonic pools. Occasionally, pure resonant frequencies pierce through the constant shiver in this expansive and beautifully controlled document.