Experimental Electronic Music
Across the fourteen tracks, CRACKS rejects reducing human suffering to mere political rhetoric or grandiose powerplay spectacles. Instead, the musical and tonal dissonance and innate musical human tenderness become a language of resistance, demonstrating how experimental music such as here can bear witness to the ills of vulnerable people’s once seen as commodities.
These two releases make a particularly effective pairing. no wonder • なるほど explores musical memory, accumulated fragments, and the creative freedom that comes from working within constraints. ilulissat turns outward, drawing on the physical world and translating its impact into an abstract but emotionally direct sonic language. Both favor patience, intention, careful construction, and a willingness to let sounds develop beyond their initial identities.
Strange storytelling, field recordings dusted in gray, gentle melancholy strings, and tribal electronic rhythms, meet stuttering voices and spell casting as sing-songing in a realm of wondrous enchantment.
What Answers pulls off, mostly, is conjuring a nostalgic feeling attached to nothing specific. Tape hiss, degraded loops, half-remembered melodic phrases, none of it points at an actual memory. It just borrows the texture of one and hands it to you empty, letting you fill in whatever it’s supposed to be about. That’s a strange trick for two artists to pull off together, especially two who built this thing without ever being in the same room.
Interbeings unfolds as a living trace of coexistence: a permeable sonic ecosystem where listening becomes an experience of connection, crossing perceptual, physical and inner layers. These intertwine with interactions with the artworks through contact microphones, and with the flugelhorn as a center of presence and listening.
Two decades removed from the clockwork IDM of Polytuft-Tech, Tim Martin’s returning light (Home Normal) and beneath still stars (handstitched*) find him stripping everything back to drift, texture, and quietly resonant melody, resulting in two companion albums that feel less like separate releases than different sides of the same long, unhurried thought.
Natural recordings, soft rhythms, distortion, metallic noises, melody, and digital artifacts continually lean against one another without settling. By the end it feels less like eight compositions and more like half an hour spent inside a system that was continuously adjusting itself while you were listening, and never quite finished.
In Passage, some of the most elemental transitions are embraced and explored using sound to portray some complex and undefined spiritual concepts. The concept behind Passage is that of passing from one phase of your life to another. This may include new residences, changing relationships, traveling to an entirely different solar system, or passing on from this life to whatever may be next.
When the final sound fades, the small white emblem at the bottom of the cover comes to mind. A wave reduced to calligraphy, discreet while the blue occupies everything. Wind Paths works in much the same way: it passes through the listener, leaves behind a faint vibration and entrusts the air with carrying it away.
Hawgood has tied Folk Reels to the idea of a mobile archive, a repository for scattered works, old tapes and encounters. Live At Still Point 2026 introduces a welcome fissure into that archive. To preserve also means admitting loss and giving it an audible measure.
Kim Cascone’s book Post-Digital Music gives sound artists the conceptual thought tools that help open up connective valves between the unconscious and conscious minds, stimulating the growth of imagination. This collection of essays is also essential reading for the continued critical discourse around issues of electronic music production and reception.
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