Core Alter have once again unearthed a microcosm of pseudo-industrial fragments blending and sandblasting blips’n bleeps with an emphasis on roughened outer soundscapes.
Skewed sonic entanglements to calmer modular acrobatics
The newly minted 3OP imprint sees Core Alter (aka Steve Baxter and Elliott Watson) swap files several thousand miles between Brisbane and San Diego as m-Realizable unveils a mini album of seven densely packed and lightly doused tracks. The overall mood is enriched by exquisite sound design elements (“Maptiles”) counteracted by glitchy, lifelike electrical morsels (“Xpunj”), to more tranquilized ambient fractures and fissures (“CirrusQ”) and broken video-game extractions and distractions (“Jithop”).
If Autechre’s latest audio works (post elseq 1–5) are a reference point, it would be difficult not to find parallel structures while consuming the bits and bytes of the seemingly disjointed “inf_recurse” as it expands and contracts from skewed sonic entanglements to calmer modular acrobatics. Core Alter have embarked on a voyage to the outer edge of The Milky Way.
And this is where the subtle shuffling of m-Realizable stands apart from its peers. A fluid traverse of minimized electronic noodling (“Ionic Disintegration”) is offset by a dizzying array of submerged found sounds. Mechanical yet organic, dense yet spacious—the duo have once again unearthed a microcosm of pseudo-industrial fragments (“Lumina”) blending and sandblasting blips’n bleeps with an emphasis on roughened outer soundscapes.
m-Realizable is available on 3OP. [Bandcamp]
