Polar Code is a deeply grounded icy synthesized orchestration covered by futuristic, sci-fi cyber-like electronic tones as well as treated acoustic timbres and deep audio moves.
A densely atmospheric sortilege
Welcomed by the representative and key label Glacial Movements in the universe of drone ambient isolationism and beyond, Polar Code is the first release published by multi-disciplinary artist Lia Bosch. Lia is involved in many art experiences and performances, ranging from travel diaries, psycho-cognitive studies, metaphysics to dance as poetry of movements, auto-ethnographical explorations of the body in physical space, and inner emotional vastness. Intentionally transversal her exploratory fields of studies are animated by a profound need of communion at the heart of humanities.
Polar Code presents a pletoric array of sound genealogies where meandering reverb-inflected drone textures interact with tactile-materialistic sound interferences and a cascade of micro noises to enthrall the listener with at the same time soothing and menacing eerily fixated Antarctica soundscapes. Undefined in terms of musical classification this album oscillates between engaging acousmatic researches and environmental ambient music with an hermetic darkened edge. Polar Code is a deeply grounded icy synthesized orchestration covered by futuristic, sci-fi cyber-like electronic tones as well as treated acoustic timbres and deep audio moves. A chthonic, powerful, cold, and rumbling cinematic excursion to ravish your ears and transport you in haunting, absorbing and post-human adventurous trip full of frozen lunar landscapes standing up in total stillness and utter bleakness. It globally starts from materialistic concreteness of a sound object to reach (thanks to sonic approaches) intangible feelings.
For its spiritually vibrant and reflective concrète music filled of arctic and found sourcesm I would make a parallel with sonic audio documents we can find on Philatélie, empreintes DIGITALes, typically for their electro-acoustic journeys through monumental, tempestuous, and climatic sound waves as well as processed echoing micro sounds. Transformative, mutable, spacious and performative sound cartographies of Ken Ikeda, Philip Samartzi, Olhon, SETI can also come to mind. In the future and depending to what will be offered after this first convincing effort, maybe this sound artist will be one to be associated with other adventurous women souls in modern days experimental electronic music such as Olivia Block, Natasha Barrett, Penelope Trappes.
All in all, Polar Code is a shimmering, ominous, dystopian and nebulous icy voyage that comes highly recommended. A densely atmospheric sortilege.
Polar Code is available on Glacial Movements. [Bandcamp]
