review

  • simon whetham & canned fit – elephant in the salon

    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…

  • koenraad ecker – sleepwalkers in a cold circus

    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…

  • jamie drouin & lance austin olsen  – sometimes we all disappear

    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…

  • haptic – excess of vision

    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…

  • danny clay – ganymede

    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…

  • gintas k – blind man tales

    gintas k – blind man tales

    Gintas K defines his own coordinates in the space-form contract and the aesthetics of sound matter, finding paths in the malleable, dealing with compounds that not only participate in the gestation of new musical variations in the audible element but also invite to an…