The Last Days of May – Fennesz
Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz’ The Last Days of May is a piece that is just shy of 24 minutes recorded in May 2024, and produced as a sound installation in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales for Volume 2024. The piece starts out with slow percussive bangs that sit in a large, empty space, the sound of a low frequency oscillator in an old piece of gear buzzing through a guitar amp like a small machine chugging in the distance, until the listener is surprised by a guitar chord that is at once in your face but ringing in the depths of the aforementioned space.