Painting In Sound

Description

“Painting In Sound,” the third album by Hayes Greenfield on Sunnyside, expands our perception of jazz - and of binaural, spatial, and immersive music. A renowned jazz musician, composer, and electroacoustic artist, Greenfield draws on decades of traditional and improvised mastery, as well as sonic exploration, to create a recording that is both profound and rich. Recorded with the spatial and binaural software Max/MSP and SPAT, the album plunges the listener into the heart of a three-dimensional sound field. Greenfield treats space as a voice in its own right, shaping air, distance, proximity, and movement with the same care he brings to melody, harmony, and rhythm. Through spatial placement and movement, across this immersive field, lines arc and spiral, instruments and textures shimmer, orbit, recede, and sonorities draw near and dissolve. Rooted in the spontaneity of jazz and going beyond traditional forms, this album pushes the boundaries between performance and environment. It is an ambitious work by an artist propelling jazz into new perceptual dimensions.