Experimental Electronic Music
This is an experience more than it is an enjoyment. Listeners drawn to the more experimental end of ambient and drone will find this a strong, solid four-track selection—patient, deliberate, and unconcerned with easy resolution. Bing Industries understands something the shale bings themselves prove: that what’s left behind doesn’t disappear.
Done literally with everyday objects you could find in anyone’s garage, Kate Carr’s Rubber Band Music exploits the various pitches and timbres you can obtain from rubber to then manipulate them via electronic means.
Here, he dives headfirst into bold ideas and uneasy experimentations, echoing the spirit of fellow sonic explorers like Kim Cascone and Francisco López—both of whom he has collaborated with under the banner of his boundary-pushing label, Nexsound.
At thirty-nine minutes, abstract dark drones and punctuated slices of musique concrète flicker across densely layered clicks and disheveled echoes.
A homogenous and well orchestrated performance, making every musician involved a fundamental component, as each adds their own little piece to form a bigger, more satisfying puzzle.
Some sort of obscure, magical ritual this is; surely an engaging one, as this Tam Lin LP tries to immediately hypnotize you as it begins. It does succeed, indeed, as you’ll likely be asking yourself what is happening throughout the entire album.
The way the drones and nature sounds blend together produce a noticeable, primordial outcome that is practically terrifying as Midsummer, London explores morbid emotions like […]
Capturing light sources to create calm atmospheres, the featured compositions are as nostalgic as they are contemporary and offer quiet tidbits for a wonderful diversion.
Darren Harper and Ümlaut create one long dreamy track and eleven short fragmented listening experiences.
I hear a complex array of compositions that are brought closer by the worldwide common experience of those times, also just the amazing human ability to express things using sound.
Carrying cinematic qualities it is easy to get swept into this atmosphere and find yourself in a swell of tension from the surrounding currents.
