microsound
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simon whetham & canned fit – elephant in the salon
Simon Whetham and Christine Schörkhuber are apparently two, but here merged as one, detached from individual pursuits and expanded as a fascinating network, manifested not just as a mutual interpretation of sounds, but as a deep and intense dialogue; an…
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koenraad ecker – sleepwalkers in a cold circus
There’s a microcosmic symbiosis happening within the morpho-space macro-structures that reveals an unfinished dimension of listening. Koenraad Ecker proposes here a sober take on that, through a syncretism towards the difference and dissection of timbre, thus expanding the figurative paradox of silence/resonance in…
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jamie drouin & lance austin olsen – sometimes we all disappear
Composition is often understood as a process of adding, mutating and organizing sounds, but with artists like James Drouin and Lance Austin Olsen is demonstrated that it is also an art of dispensing, dissolving and reducing elements. Sometimes we all disappear, perhaps…
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haptic – excess of vision
In the concrete (in)substantiality of sounds, all categories tend to be fuzzy, vague and useless. The invisible experience reveals the inconsistency of the listening phenomena in regard to common adjectives given to other sensory objects, here offering a successive fluid…
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chris strickland – animal expert
We carry sounds from one place to another and thereby places from one sound to another; blending what’s occupied with the content itself, such as in Animal expert where, without getting attached to a single compositional line, Chris Strickland achieves a remarkable…
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danny clay – ganymede
Listening is matchless, so ineffable in its own language that only the act of detention is able to glimpse the real state of a composition, or even the listener as such. True to this premise is ganymede, an album by Danny Clay that…