Word: sonics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing—paradoxically highlighting language’s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both a commemoration of the leading role MIT radio played in exploring revolutionary music in the 1960s and 1970s and a reminder that thirty or forty years ago the internet...
...series of scrawled diagrams, pictures and drawings. Not content to be merely strange, they also produce incredible musical compositions—the instrumental songs on their latest album are strikingly diverse, both internally and against each other, with track lengths varying between 1:11 and 12:27 and sonic evocations from monastery hymns to industrial to glitch...
...beatboxing-breakdown in the history of music, and continually eludes predictability with vicissitudes of style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs on B EP are extraordinary and delectable sonic morsels, with their calculated intelligence in choice of timing space garnished by the postmodern genre-bending of their stylistic variations...
...were broken up by the amazing drum sections, which built up regular rhythms with a single beat in each that came just barely before expected, keeping the listeners on edge. These were interspersed with loud crashing breakdowns that gave an animalistacally cathartic element to the usually calm and soothing sonic euphoria...
This second release from orchestral octet Hem was recorded in New York City and Slovakia—very far from the southern home of the “countrypolitan” sound that they try to channel. Judging from this bloodless collection of songs, the northward sonic transplant did not take...