Experimental Electronic Music
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week: Big Audio Dynamite, Paul St. Hilaire, Sparkle Division, and David Sylvian.
With characteristic rhythmic splutters reminiscent of alien transmissions, Exivvaves skillfully entwines hundreds of layers, blips, bleeps, and crunchy melodic strands.
There is wonderful fusion is styles and influences under the Heogen moniker, fusing the complex and surreal composition style of exm (aka Jeroen Bax) with the melodic and rhythmical style.
Music For The Radical Xenomaniac is an act of audio archaeology that deserves respect. Establishing a label, contacting artists and labels from three decades past and bringing this all together on three double LPs.
Deep layers of abstract electronics are present in each of the nine compositions, which are layered over a variety of sculpted noises and textured rhythms.
Offering aural sentient textures and dreamily electroacoustic and minimal sequences recommended for fans of quintessential works by Helios, Goldmund, Hammock, Winged Victory for the Sullen, and Pausal.
Sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds, lapping waves of noises, sinuous e-guitar motifs, ruminating drones, processed cathedral-ish chorus, engulfed church organ patterns…
This is the music of deep space, slow distant presences are revealed, with interesting textures and gigantic open areas where planets are small circles.
The audio arts are a way of interpreting as well as creating many mysteries, beauty permits more exposure, honest expression can include healing and evoking difficult depths.
We find ourselves immersed in full-bodied expanses of floating drones and the intricate use of field recordings, for a slow and pleasant listening, exposed to very skillful sound design techniques.
Eight tracks that hum their way through warm modular realms, as if to suggest a peaceful journey through time, are led by Octavcat, who leaves very little breathing room.
