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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
KurtMcAllister:
Happy late April Fool's Day! (the April Fool's here is that I'm wasting a post because nobody else cares about this shit.[it is not a very good April Fool's])
Cyclo. - id [raster-noton;2011]
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai first premiered their collaborative Cyclo project a deacde ago on Raster Noton. Relaunching in 2011 they're just as intent on creating a synaesthetic visualization of sound that "...seeks to create a new hybrid of visual art and music". Essentially the sounds on 'Id' are inextricable from their visual corollary. They're the unmastered sonic illustrations of detailed graphical data, and vice versa, developed from a database of sounds composed to produce visual responses when analysed in real time with the help of stereo image monitoring equipment. Most importantly, the sounds are subservient to the image, hence the record remains purposefully unmastered in order to retain the waveform's original integrity when visualized through an XY phase scope, transcending the usual sound>image dynamic. But that's not to say that the music doesn't possess its own heightened, strangely affecting quality - within 30 seconds of listening through headphones this reviewer's eyes were watering, a physically visceral effect if we've ever felt one. A man-sized Kleenex later and we discover that, unlike its relatively austere predecessor, the sounds within cover a wider spectrum of rhythms, from spasmodic digital pulses to lightyears-advanced electro syncopation, and similarly a dazzling frequency range capable of causing acutely synaesthetic reactions. All this leads us to think that 'Id' is a work of uncompromising genius, at once cementing and advancing Ikeda and Nicolai's relentlessly ongoing audio/visual quest.
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Helpless Rock:
Finding that Okkervil River link on April 2nd is far worse then finding it on April 1st. I got so excited. And then so very very sad.
ALoveSupreme:
^Every joke that happened online that I found on the 2nd.
JD:
Igorrr - Moisissure
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--- Quote ---Igorrr (aka Gautier Serre) is a French composer of electronic and acoustic music who mixes with astonishing ease genres as different as electronica, baroque music, death metal and trip hop among others.
"Imagine what would be if a church organist goes crazy, learns to growl, masters the wisdom of working with sound on computer, learns to beat drums rhythms in the manner of Slipknot, plays drum machine à la Venetian Snares. His favorite musical instruments would be Latin guitar, he would listen to music of the Middle Ages and his hobby would be to collect old records. Have you imagined that? Well, Igorrr is something of this kind." - Dmitry Quarck, soundproector.com
"a mangled maelstrom of classical coupled with modern synthesised and virtual instrumentation, resulting in a breakbeat-black metal-opera exercise in madness." "anything this original and fresh (there really is nothing even vaguely similar available anywhere) as this selection of eleven pieces of brilliant lunacy deserves great praise. He may be reinventing what he began previously, but it is evolving into something far cleaner, more technically accomplished and much, much darker - without a doubt, an artist worth watching for any fan of experimental (and practically unclassifiable) fusions of electronic music." - David vander Merwe, Connexion Bizarre.
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FloridaRotisserie:
Finding it on the 3rd is nothing short of heartbreaking.
Especially when the 3rd is your birthday. :cry:
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