Louisian Stars is a fascinating foray of pieces through which time has no meaning. Dizzying loops, skips, clips and effervescent audio shadows somehow tranquilize the ears, mind and soul with a flare for spatial recreation in minimal formation.
[Release page] Described in the Artificial Music Machine press-release as an EP about process, evolution and decay, the Lousisian Stars project utilized forty-seconds of source material contained in nine musical phrases. Stretched and varied until artifacts from generation loss are magnified and featured as elements in the final sound design, it is quite clear that Malloc understands how to create and recreate from a palette of what would seem to be a limited set of options. Each track bares a graphic of our planetary system including the rings of Saturn to craters featured on various moons—it’s emblematic of how Malloc serves music to suit these astronomical beauties of the cosmos.
Louisian Stars is a slowly immersive kaleidoscope of dreamlike states of unconsciousness. Taking field recordings, lost samples, miniscule shivers, crackling drones and undulating waves—there’s more to these brisk experimental shadows than what can be heard on the surface. “Tethys” offers the sound of a 3am walk in the park as the patter of various analog buzzes conforms to each footstep. “Dione/Rhea” maneuvers into and out of Oval’esque frequencies as its epic time-stamp creates a soundtrack of the changing landscape composed of microscopic clicks, textured ambience and expansive blips to unearth a dub-escape. “Cassini Division” is the more upbeat of the lot—casually unfolding a sphere of lightened audio bubbles that flicker among instrumental pathways to the physiological world of bewilderment. “Iapetus” segues into further undercurrents of early Pole-era atmospherics—vinyl crackling is replaced with subterranean pulses fading out of focus.
Louisian Stars is a fascinating foray of pieces through which time has no meaning. Dizzying loops, skips, clips and effervescent audio shadows somehow tranquilize the ears, mind and soul with a flare for spatial recreation in minimal formation.
Louisian Stars is available on Artificial Music Machine. [Release page]
