Maybe the last great recording of the evolutionized click/cut genre which seems to be slowly fading into memory, Australian multimedia artist Joyce Hinterding has exploded on to the scene with an inventive work of aural art. On Spectral, Sigma Editions the label that introduced us to Vladislav Delay and Rosy Parlane has collaborated with the newest promising label out of New York, Antiopic, who has already released excellent recordings by Ultra Red and Dion Workman and are about to embark on their upcoming Allegorical Power Series.
Hinterding’s hour-long opus was developed as part of a three-month residency at the Cape Bruny lighthouse in Tasmania as part of an installation project called The Levitation Grounds. Multi-channels, satellites, natural occurrences – oh my! The sounds are masked and filtered, with the natural disturbance of ocean waves and other technical instruments and meter-readers. This is S.O.S. overload built on frequencies and atonal static. The beats are created through a variety of extraordinary sound equipment not widely available to those working in the realm of noise composition. Beyond all the technical jargon is a sensitive approach to bringing together a collection of found sound, randomly improvised by the environment and its variables. This captures the calming effects of radical weather conditions through the constant drone/buzz of radio waves and other things that go bump (beep, crack, etc) in the night.
