[microsound-announce] Exclusive Autistici - "Meadow Bed (53 acres)" @ Boomkat

[David Newman]

Boomkat's digital store have taken "Complex Tone Test" with an exclusive
very extended version of the final track "Meadow Bed". You can listen to a
preview over at the store .... 
 
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=253002
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Boomkat say ....
 
"A follow-up to the Volume Objects 12K album release that arrived at the
very beginning of the year, Autistici's Complex Tone Test continues to
explore a broad spectrum of electroacoustic phenomena, derived from digital,
instrumental and naturally occurring sounds. 'Key For A Lockable Cabinet' is
an especially striking confluence of these elements, sounding like a study
of intermingled woodwind, mellotron and environmental crackle while
preserving the implicitly melodic qualities that illuminated the 12K
long-player. Delving into more synthetic areas of sound design 'Meticule'
takes pulsing oscillations and layers them into a Raster Noton-like network
of more rigid glitch rhythms, setting the whole thing off into an
escalating, motorised pattern that acquires a thudding backbeat for a few
moments. Following this unexpectedly robust sequence of events, 'Resonating
Wire' brings us back to a delicate microsound universe, characterised by
close-miced, atomised percussive gstures, gauzy beams of hiss and
eventually, some rather lovely bowed strings. As the album continues it
seems to alternate between strict experimentalism and more ornamental sound
designs, striking up a smart balance between the head-flooding machinations
of 'La Spaziale S1 Vivaldi' and the prettier, more decorative likes of
'Meadow Bed'. Two of the finest pieces arrive late on: Disintegrated
Interest' is a relatively short dissection of instrumental sources,
reminiscent of early academic tape music, while 'Annualized Light' is a
delightful ear massage that incorporates thin, elastic synth textures
continuously panning far-left to far-right while processed recordings of
sneezes, speech and electronic tones fill the space in between. Excellent."
 
 

David Newman

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