Experimental Electronic Music
PCA adepts who’ve followed the project’s trajectory over the last decade may miss the signature purr and prod of bass propulsion and its dynamic; but they will find here new skin for the old ceremony, with fresh, or reformed, pleasures, wrapped/rapt as they are in diaphanous new configurations.
Maneuvering through dilapidated ambient-electronics, alien concrète reverberations and clicks’n’cuts, data swirl and digital flutter.
Clear space there may be between early and late Drape—Forage staying smaller, up-closer, Presence going wider and higher, post-production lending granularity to instrumentation…
35 minutes of pluvial drones replete with soft white/grey noise and sotto voce spoken word possess a mesmeric quality that transcends the reductive description herein.
While much piano-based music can tend towards the precious, laying over the listener an insipid blanket of saccharine sadness, or blithe brightness, ASC’s OST strikes a nicely poised ambiguity…
Todd Gautreau’s fourteenth outing in Tapes and Topographies guise, is a set of ten impressionistic sonic vignettes painted with delicacy in vaporous colors.
Adaptation adds to a growing back catalog, with languorous, looping motifs accruing through judicious entrainment into an overall suite whose doleful resonance is as strong emotionally as timbrally.
Dreamtides is another widescreen work that plays out like a sonic dream journal, with vivid illustrations of unreal landscapes couched in slow-elaborated recursions of languorous synth-tones.
Since inception in 2020 Edinburgh’s Werra Foxma Records has quietly gone about curating some fine electronic music, with two of its more recent offerings from Morgen Wurde & Tis and autumna getting an igloo ‘view.
Departing from the Enovian principle of Ambient as functional room tint or affordance structure for relaxation, LUXE exhibits the genre’s stylistic richness, not to mention latitude, in its questing navigation through diverse sounds and states.
Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
