Experimental Electronic Music
Both records express what has been built up to in previous outings from these artists, and they may as well be the culmination for both for now; unless there’s even more coming out this year, at which point I’d have to see which way the wind will be blowing in future releases.
A meditative album featuring tracks of ambient electronic loops that lull a listener into a state of relaxed awareness.
Overall, Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer is a great release and very worth listening to. It is smart, entrancing, transcendent, glitchy, and reminds me more than a little bit of the great works of Brian Eno.
The use of the standard music trifecta of bass, drums, and melody does ground these pieces in the familiar, yet the way Keith Fullerton Whitman has broken these out of their mold means what he is doing is still risky and groundbreaking research.
Experimental music can mean many things—often tracks are beat-less or off-beat, atonal or noisy, or in some way either more or less dense than other genres. My point is not to establish orthodox genre boundaries.
“I (also) urge musicians to write using whatever means they choose and would suggest that means can affect results in a composition, but believe that some expression is possible using almost any means of musical creation.”
Eight years of fragile and amorphous memories form into layers of sounds intended to open the whole body to the celestial world.
We are treated to a sort of granular treatment of piano pieces and piano timbres. Throughout the recording, Iwata’s instrument and compositions are put through […]
