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One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

Over the decades, the details of the quartet's creation began to take on elements of myth, many supplied by the composer, who claimed to remember an audience of thousands, a cello with only three strings and a clarinet with side keys warped by heat from a paraffin stove.

A POW's Awe-Inspiring Act of Faith Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

Countdown, like the quartet's earlier albums Time Out (1959) and Time Further Out (1961) reflect the band's constant push to expand their understanding of musical time with temporal possibilities as limitless as outer space.

Network Awesome: Brubeck's Signature, Signed with Time Network Awesome 2011

Countdown, like the quartet's earlier albums Time Out (1959) and Time Further Out (1961) reflect the band's constant push to expand their understanding of musical time with temporal possibilities as limitless as outer space.

Network Awesome: Brubeck's Signature, Signed with Time Network Awesome 2011

Countdown, like the quartet's earlier albums Time Out (1959) and Time Further Out (1961) reflect the band's constant push to expand their understanding of musical time with temporal possibilities as limitless as outer space.

Network Awesome: Brubeck's Signature, Signed with Time Network Awesome 2011

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse of machinery on octaves alternating up and down between violins, viola, and cello.

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010