Towards a new sonic consciousness — A profile of Frank Perry
Eddie Franklin · Contemporary Music Review · 1996
Frank Perry is a composer-improviser who uses percussion instruments which produce sustained non-percussive sounds of immense richness and timbral density to evoke sensations of peace, insight and heightened spiritual awareness. From a background as a free-form jazz drummer in the late 60s backing Keith Tippett, Roland Kirk and many others, Perry has developed a technique of klangfarbenmelodie using large gongs, Tibetan bowls and instruments of his own manufacture. A trance medium with a penetrating esoteric insight, he pursues a rigorous spiritual discipline and makes considerable use of astrology in his compositions. These are of a considerable complexity which however is always subordinated to a holistic awareness of the spiritual in performance.