(03.10.05) Completing a trilogy of dark ambient work, Korrelations is a
summary of Beyond Sensory Experience’s sepulchral science, both a
recollection of the arcane places explored on the previous works as
well as a re-interpretation through the efforts of a number of
remixers. There are more beats on Korrelations and not all of
them are supplied by the remixers. Korrelations is one of
those records which hangs in space after a fully realized body of work
where the artist pauses, catches their breath, and then vanishes
again, leaving behind a few hints of their new direction.
A collaboration between Drakon (MZ.412, Nordvargr/Drakh, L/A/B) and
artist/scientist K. Meitzer, Beyond Sensory Experience explores the
scientific possibilities of numbers converted to music, delving into
the darkness of subterranean numeric theory and sending back muffled
reports from the black depths. “Korrelations” and “Tortuna [Henrik
Nordvargr Bjorkk remix]” whisper with dialogue, muttered and muted
information that is passed subconsciously through the music to the
listener. A woman’s voice wanders through “Ratan II,” hinting at some
scientific revelation though the insight is obscured by her unknown
language. The DoShaska! remix of “Urmula” is given impetus by the
addition of beats — tablas and a shuffling drum kit — to the
swirling ambience while Beyond Sensory Experience themselves apply a
rhythm section to “Yes Satan.” But it is the Alk0 remix of
“28.9.11.9” that really leaves the closeted darkness behind as it
snarls with wild guitar, bursting with an overdriven wall of sound
that obliterates the damp darkness of the preceding ten tracks as if
to reverse the diaphanous ambience of the trilogy into a cascade of
brittle shards of sound.
A footnote to the sonic thought experiment of Tortura,
Urmula and Ratan, Korrelations is not a collection of
unrelated bits that didn’t have a home. It is a realized examination
of “What happens next?” When an experiment is finished, the
scientists must take what they’ve learned and apply it to the future.
The realized number theory of dark ambience as explored by their
trilogy of records is leveraged by Beyond Sensory Experience into the
future world of rhythm and noise.
Korrelations is out now on Old Europa Cafe.
