After years of keeping us on the edge of our seats, on his live recording for bruitversum, Tomoroh Hidari (aka Oliver Stummer) returns with an EP aptly-titled Depth Sounding consisting of four tracks ranging in length from four to seven minutes.
An utterly engaging sonic tetrad
After years of keeping us on the edge of our seats, on his live recording for bruitversum, Tomoroh Hidari (aka Oliver Stummer) returns with an EP aptly-titled Depth Sounding consisting of four tracks ranging in length from four to seven minutes. As the intro track, “B.L.O.O.M.,” notes, it’s an infusion of blooming ambient synth transmissions, a masterful venture into textured/glitch atmospheric soundwaves that float endlessly.
Tomoroh Hidari takes solace in sci-fi soundtrack motifs exposing granular melodies building up and fading away (ref. “Objections.”) As the album winds up, “Lithophonurgia sinistra 42” delivers finer glitch particles this side of planet Earth in a blissful amalgam of all that’s come before it—a more rhythmic pseudo-electro piece running parallel to artists like Phoenecia and elseq 1-5-era Autechre. The slippery notes and roughened layers of “H.E.A.T.H.” also feel as though they were drawn from an extraterrestrial language, making Depth Sounding an utterly engaging sonic tetrad.
Depth Sounding is an exclusive performance for the private view of the exhibition “Vertiefung (Adding Depth)” by London based Space Group Architects at Redoutensaal Foyer at the Imperial Palace, Vienna. Based around the two tracks previously created for their Regent Street Windows project 2015, “H.E.A.T.H.” and “B.L.O.O.M.” (from Regency EP — Ivory Bunker, 2018) plus a remix of his 13 Objects EP (bruitversum, 2020) and a mash-up of tracks 4 and 2 from Lithophonurgia sinistra (bruitversum, 2018).
Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg, Vienna) is available on bruitversum. [Bandcamp]
