(04.08.05) When I bought a vertical CD player for my room, I had not thought of 3″ CD’s.
Luckily, I have only two Mini-CD’s, but I must play them in my CD walkman.
One of these is Ekranoplanes, and listening to it with headphones unleashes
the whole beauty of the conceptual work of Szkieve. He has been inspired by
Ekranoplanes, a Russian hybrid between an airplane and a boat, and you can
hear the results in the seven tiny tracks that resemble the gigantic
engines starting, or the immense metallic surfaces of the wings hitting
water or air. It’s not just pure experimentation, not mere academy –the sound
design is rich and deep, frozen melodies break through tinny clicks and
gloomy buzzes, giving you feelings of mythological technology. The artwork
doesn’t give you a precise idea of how bizarre those airplanes were,
seeing the pictures, I can hardly imagine how such
things could fly. This music is a very fascinating, a disturbing ode to
mysterious machines.
Ekranoplanes is out now on Ant-Zen.
