Launched a Suite Of New Music early this morning (in time for Bandcamp Friday) comprised of recordings made while preparing for & performing at an honest-to-goodness Noise Show at TV Eye a few weeks back.
This one deviates from recent audio-posts significantly in that this music was all heavily rearranged through a process of chopping up & transforming a further generation of self-sustaining environments, (often) beyond recognition. The common thread is bitonality realized via dual quantizers offset by a static interval, each trained on a 4-voice “Arabesque” – “Kafkaesque” as a descriptor fits beautifully given the lean into the darker corners of harmony, bordering on the grotesque. I’m rather fond of the first two pieces as a standalone pair (in which the input-stage of a spring first acts as a highly resonant bandpass filter before providing the unmistakeable metallic sheen found across so many of my favorite Pinakotheca & Vanity LPs; what a sound) & I’ve opted to also share a re-ordered transcription of the concert itself, along with a couple of futher proof-of-concept recordings to seal the deal.
I’m biased, but it’s some of my best work recently in terms of creating novel, fully-formed aesthetics through continuously reconfiguring the Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer I’ve committed to over these past 6 months; certainly this the sound I’ve been the most excited about recently & everything down to the cover-art fits a narrative arc that’s there for you to decode. I’ve found this process of taking the building blocks of electronic music & applying them liberally across often clashing production styles while maintaining an agnostic approach to genre extremely liberating; hopefully those that have been listening all along won’t be too shocked by the more transgressive direction here, but ultimately I’m exploring ideas like this entirely for myself, out of an intense curiosity as to where it can lead, both sonically & socially.
Play this loud, over big speakers… or at the very least through decent headphones for a fully sensory experience while out roaming about: the production is deeply sub-heavy & everything here feels electric & alive (if… submerged). I’ll be taking a month or two off from the fever-pitch of all of this to regroup, rebuild, and reconceptualize (and to get Alpha State NYC & Creel Pone back up to speed after a quiet 6 months there) but I’ll fill you in on the bounty of concerts & travel starting in early July once everything has fallen into place (folks in NYC, Chicago, Santa Cruz, Portland, & Wilmington: stay tuned).
