Undulate

Across two extended pieces — "gestures, percussion solo, jungle" and "other solutions and mimicking object a" — struck objects, field recordings and synthetic events surface and disappear, their sources kept deliberately uncertain: acoustic, electronic, or somewhere in between. It is an austere, episodic music in which silence carries as much weight as sound. Recorded between 2015 and 2018 and mastered by Marcus Schmickler.

We languish in the space between the notes

— Nick Luscombe (Late Junction, BBC Radio 3)

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Gestures, Percussion Solo, Jungle 15:50
Other Solutions and Mimicking Object A 19:31

It is a concert. It is a lecture. It is a drum solo, a homage to Tudor, an opaque invitation, it's a conversation in silence and incomprehensible fields, a test for an upcoming AGI. Volatile acoustic spaces ornamented with intrinsic synthetic sounds. Spatial narrow windows of waves, oxygen intake and walking in rubber shoes, intertwined by re-synthesized classical stems and animal sounds. A melancholic modality spinning on the murmurs from the inside of an organ coupled by a mean-tone synthetic twin. A floating, indecisive passive voice.

Undo's are real, earlier form to sentence, program directions, imagination surface; silence performed in mumble. The horror at the prospects of a number multiplied manifold grinding at the door, the encapsulated room, the first sight of having unearthed the infinite underlying implications of a one-shot transgressive act. Rising mouth, sputtering split in bold. Born in mass bogus. Situation timid klepto-satisfaction of some kind. Summoning the perturbed landscape of the brisk and diffused, performed from a molten-state. All in all, in itself, all it is - was all that it wasn't. A palimpsest undulating at every breath.