You didn’t tune out at the word “composer,” did you? Assuming I’m going to talk about something that only old people or music-school grad students would like? Maybe it would help if I said that Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Anthony Pateras has collaborated with vocalist Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, that he’s played in what’s basically a piano-based grindcore duo, or that he’s in the States because he did the music for The Man Who Disappeared, a film on Antonin Artaud by Semiotext(e) founder Sylvere Lotringer that premieres in New York next week.
Pateras’s duo with Patton, called Tētēma, released an album last year called Geocidal (Ipecac). The track “Tenz” has a rhythmic density similar to Blood Stretched Out, except with tons of fascinatingly busy interlocking percussion and, well, Mike Patton.
