Experimental Electronic Music
Markarian has a unique process here and MemLoss conveys a unique ambience that is centered on leaving you in a daze. This isn’t abstract sound art for its own sake, it’s documentation of confusion, of forgetting, of grasping for something that’s no longer there. MemLoss doesn’t need to justify itself. It just is.
The newest expression, Were we really there?, is a beatless paean to somnambulist mornings at campfire-ember edges, or where the lull of lapping lakes adjacent to preemptive summer sunsets captivate.
The latest release from Kirk Markarian under the Neuro… No Neuro moniker is a meticulously ripened offering of ear-fruit, shaped by a newly favored effects pedal whose very purpose seems validated by Markarian’s ability to unlock its full expressive range.
Can you create your own Zen on an eleven-hour flight from Berlin to Miami? I gave it a try with the February 2025 album Card Catalogue, by Neuro… No Neuro. Flights are a world of fleeting moments and constant interruptions. This album invites you to pause, sift through your mental archives, and find solace in the texture of memory.
Mind-bending and engaging minimalist soundtracks captured in eleven sonic miniatures.
Subtle field recordings and granular synthesis spread across these compositions as shimmering elements take hold.
Markarian weaves a diverse mix of distinct electrical strands across each of its twelve sections, even while his usage of drones, tones, and buzzing melodic shards veer even more into isolated abstraction.
Brittle melodicism captured in a brief two-chapter sonic foray.
Neuro… No Neuro captures five minuscule sound bytes where obscurely formed electronic shapes become invisible and peculiar.
Neuro… No Neuro’s ruminative plateaus featured on Faces & Fragments understand the omniscience as the artistry within each track shares its lush fragmented elements absorbed in such preciously decayed increments.
The Edges Are All Wrong presents 19-tracks of abstract electronic music that touches upon brief surreal moments in time that will affect each listener differently. […]
