Saturday, June 13, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Hecker - Acid in the Style of David Tudor [2009]
Edited like a slow moving film, Hecker has spliced together the scenes of his experiments. Punctuating these movements are three tracks that share the title "Asa.” High-pitched and hard-panned, these short and hyper-repetitive tracks offer the listener a greater chance to zoom in on the blistering sounds. It’s a dizzying proposition.
One consequence of its process: Every sound on Acid in the Style of… has a shadow. Feedback variants follow each squawk, blast or rumble wherever they go, often ending in collision. The blistering feedback coats everything, like some sticky, electronic residue. But at the suggested high volume listening, these complementary forces open up into more detailed strata, each perceivable pattern of sounds revealing smaller and smaller sub-sets of noise.
That’s definitely the record’s most curious trait. By simply turning the volume up or down, one can wake or destroy all sorts of afferent ghosts. The rub: By the time one discovers the disc’s quietest illusions, there’s no escaping the range of its roar. (•)
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
China: The Sonic Avant-Garde [comp, 2003]
"This first-ever, 2-hour survey of the current experimental music and sound art scene in Mainland China features 15 artists mostly in their twenties from all over the country. The double-CD set shows what is really happening today on the Chinese new music cutting-edge. No more symphonies or string quartets with self-Orientalizing titles and pentatonic motifs. In fact, you won't hear one Chinese instrument here. The incredibly wide range of styles cover everything from plunderphonics, musique concrete, experimental electronics, ambient, sample collage, plug-in modulation, text-sound, sound poetry, mixer feedback improv, hardcore noise, radio art, political satire, to post-concrete recording art documenting a family karaoke scene. This is only the beginning of something unpredictable. Not to be missed." (•)
[links taken down per label request -- see comments]
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Tetsuo Furudate + Zbigniew Karkowski - World as Will [1998]
"Staalplaat's 1998 release of World as Will (the title is taken from Schopenhauer's famous philosophical work) comes as an anomaly in the output of its two collaborators. Zbigniew Karkowski and Tetsuo Furudate are most well-known for their electronic performances, but for this release they have collaborated on two fully composed orchestral works, played here by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Karkowski and Furudate continue a tradition most closely connected with Greek composer Iannis Xenakis (one of Karkowski's teachers and primary influences), where the orchestra creates a strange and bewildering sound world, far removed from most concert halls." (amg)
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Today Is the Day - Temple of the Morning Star [1997]
“I wake in cold sweat / And there is no one / Who cares / This life / No life /
It's killing me / I am slowly dying / I can't be what you want me to be / I am dead…”
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