Fading loops, subdued clicks, and miniscule tones drift in far away places, the drones broken into layers of emotive debris. The Queens, New York-based musician creates randomized noises and weightless sounds that dither away with each listen.
Minimal textures surrounded by swaths of brittle sonic noise, Ümlaut (aka Jeff Düngfelder) is new to these ears, but a welcomed retreat into a beat-less world. Fading loops, subdued clicks, and miniscule tones drift in far away places, the drones broken into layers of emotive debris. The Queens, New York-based musician creates randomized and weightless sounds that dither away with each listen on Musique De Film.
With slight manipulation of harsher audibles (ie. “Without End”), one can find rugged distortion and undulating low-end shards in the background. There are also more organic streams as evidenced on “How Silent The Trees,” where abstract notes are carefully fractured and seamlessly expand the subconsciousness. “Sleeper” is an evolved transmission where the listener is treated to a harsher hypnotism—its foggy vibrations are both eerie and somehow transcendental. Delicately woven melodies flicker as “On The Feelings That Stay” maneuvers elongated glitchy strands through its microscopic elements. Field recordings left astray, a flowing collection of static blips and irregular whirs inhabits the closing piece (“Sinister”) as it launches into a surreal atmospheric organism.
In all, Audiobulb sets yet another fine blueprint for exploratory electronic music as Ümlaut’s Musique De Film revitalizes a new year for one of our favorite long-running digital imprints.
Musique De Film is available on Audiobulb January 9, 2019.
