Despite a multiplicity of aggregated elements and cascading effects, the general mood of Sculptures in Time remains cohesive and mysteriously flowing, with deeply transportive sequences working as an evocative mind trip.
Cohesive and mysteriously flowing
Dimitar Dodovski is a talented and multifaceted sound designer and creator of innovative, advanced minimal ambient soundscapes from Macedonia. He has produced a vast catalog of albums under his own name or under various project names in collaboration (Moss Garden with Lee Anthony Morris, Post Global Trio with Toni Dimitrov and Martin Georgievski). Notable material has been published on a variety of indie labels with a broader vision of modern-day ambient music and inspirational long-form droney minimalism (Unknown Tone, Carpe Sonum et al). I’m more familiar with Dodovski’s collaborative efforts. For instance, I highly praise the free-flowing, disorienting and grainy textured melodicism of Fluids by Post Global Trio. Time is really missing to go further into his musical production, but from what I’ve experienced until now, he is a sound artist who really deserves to be known by passionate lovers of levitating and experimental music in a chamber compositional mode.
Without being a folkish ambient-drone album, Sculptures in Time embraces the alluring stylistic path of “process music” around acoustic instruments. The result is surprising, dis-narrative, unobtrusive, with lots of nuances, sound colors and micro-events. Despite a multiplicity of aggregated elements and cascading effects, the general mood remains cohesive and mysteriously flowing, with deeply transportive sequences working as an evocative mind trip. The album also delivers discreet, well-articulated samples and hypnotic pulsating motifs with almost tremendous abstract glitch moments.
The whole concept is linked to the highly recommended book Sculptures in Time by Tarkovsky (a leading figure of a cinema of metaphysical poetry), based on a personal and spiritual voyage where existential time meets eternity through the lens of faith and imagination. With its repetitive stillness and dynamic metamorphoses, this album might easily convince fans of microsound, slow music, glitch-esque atmospherics, and those who are into the most relaxing side of minimal ambient-dub.
Sculptures in Time is available on Shimmering Moods. [Bandcamp]
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