William Eggleston - musik

Secretly Canadian recently released musik, the debut album from influential photographer William Eggleston. It is an hour of improvisational songs culled from 30-years of recordings. Here's the fascinating official rundown:

In the 1980s, Eggleston, who disdained digital cameras and modernity in general, became surprisingly fascinated with a synthesizer, the Korg OW/1 FD Pro, which had 88 piano-like keys, and in addition to being able to emulate the sound of any instrument, also contained a four-track sequencer that allowed him to expand the palette of his music, letting him create improvised symphonic pieces, stored on 49 floppy discs, encompassing some 60 hours of music from which this 13 track recording was assembled.

You can listen to "Untitled Improvisation FD 1.10, dive into the whole album or watch this Rick Alverson mini-documentary on Eggleston's relationship to music.

It was certainly a delightful surprise to see that Eggleston was involved in music at all and even more enjoyable that it's through the conduit of a KORG and improvised pieces.