HIVE1
Tyondai Braxton's latest solo project is an album adaptation of a multimedia extravaganza he staged at the Guggenheim in 2013. The music is an eight-movement suite of percussion and electronics that combines avant-rock influences like the Boredoms with the sounds of 20th-century modern classical composers.
HIVE1 is is that very rare thing, an artwork that remains interesting out of context, torn from the safety of the gallery walls but just as uncompromising away from them - a work of striking, defiant abstraction that cements Braxton’s position as one of…
After leaving Battles, Tyondai Braxton focused on more rarefied projects: Central Market was an ambitious orchestral work, while its follow-up HIVE1 debuted as an installation at the Guggenheim Museum.
It’s no secret that former Battles member Tyondai Braxton is one of the most talented musicians around today, but as displayed on the bloated and indulgent Central Market that isn’t always beneficial.
To distil a multi-sensory, mixed media art performance such that only a single element of the original concept remains, and to have the husk...
Experimental music of the sort Tyondai Braxton makes is hugely interpretive: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.