Following last years autumn equinox release with Cherche Encore, peb arrives on Mutualism for summer solstice with their debut full length.
‘A Blade of Grass has the Status of a Flower’ continues peb’s tentacular approach to the exploration of historical harmony, minimal textures and ungrounded rhythm over 7 pieces.
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In the year 450bc, on a sea voyage, Hippasus of Metapontum was allegedly thrown overboard by disciples of Pythagoras. He had stumbled upon the square root of 2, an irrational number. Its contour had surged out of the world built by pythagorean possibility.
A blade of grass acts as thief. It steals time (rubato) and bends tempi into floral surfaces irrationally generated.
Nymphaea lotus, or the Egyptian white water-lily, is worshipped in ancient Egypt as a symbol of creation, of bringing forth the new.
The flower demands its own conception of strength and beauty
The acceptance of irrational numbers into the mathematical lexicon began with Egyptian polymath Abu Kamil Suja’ Ibn Aslam, over 1200 years after the death of Hippasus of Metapontum.
The petals of the flower must, at some impasse, accept the rigid structure of so-called ‘natural grids’ as insufficient for its growth. Its shape is sound as close to sculpture, unique, in the way it defines and modifies real and virtual spaces, with its own telos and its own contours.
Pulses of growth and retreat are lowercase when needed, uppercase when wanted - testament to the power of restraint and arrangement.
This is a theatrical gesture. not voided, distance or absent, but a compelling presence that is comfortable, still and stoic. an everyday landscaper making a thousand pencil sketches.
All proceeds from this release will be donated to
greenandblackcross.org