The static fury of composition--notation held in darkness--exploding in the untamed furies of its realization.  Duo46 drives us from the dark underworld of latent passions into the epiphanies of light and freedom.  The pieces interpreted here--all of which composed for Duo46--border on the out of bounds.  Through the untamed furies of sound, Matthew Gould on guitar and Beth Ilana Schneider on violin release an exaltation and joy, boundary-annihilating and self-transcending.  With roots in nature and history, in urban myth and logical systems--"Asphalt Gypsy," "was the sky as liquid," and "Venn Music"--Duo46 points beyond duality and the boundaries of space and time.  Untaming the Fury transports us from the furious terrors of this world to an experience almost entirely in the present disconneted from the past or future.  It conjures up in us the presentness of Now, space without place, an aesthetic rapture unassociated with anything occurring in the familiar world.  Through a body of sound touched by the nightmare of history, the surreal and phantasmal performance of Duo46, in commemoration of 9/11, transcends to a disembodied quality that will blow the top of your head off.  Perhaps the only real way to change the direction of history.

-Prof. Dr. William S. Haney II