Albers, Brian wrote:
quoted 4 lines I frequently enjoy the "soundscapish" aspects of Brasilia. Are the
> I frequently enjoy the "soundscapish" aspects of Brasilia. Are the
> Squaremeter releases as rhythmic as Brasilia (especially the latter half
> of
> the cd)? Or are they a lot more ambient?
technically, "brasilia" is credited to panacea, not squaremeter. i do
think though that among his early glitch efforts ("14id1610s" on ant-zen
and "sincecore" on mille plateaux), this installment of "architettura"
series is the most successful, since it is tied to a particular visual
representation that works perfectly with the music (does anyone
rememeber that brazilian art exhibition in guggenheim last spring, when
they had a short film on oscar niemeyer with the music by philip glass,
although panacea would have been a lot more appropriate).
however, ever since "kopyright liberation" has been released on hands,
his style changed dramatically. after early efforts when glitch was
nothing more than a study, a contrived, artificial complex yet tedious
rendition, he abandoned all rhythms and started anew with cold
bass-heavy ambient waves punctuated by sparse arrythmic clicks that
instead of filling the space acquired the outlining, shaping quality,
creating sort of calder-like sonic mobiles with their smooth organic
curves and metallic precision.
starting with "kopyright liberation" he continued with this style,
gradually adding very minimal, very deep rhythmic waves to the initial
dark eerie ambient. on his two latest full-lengths ("parsec" and "the
bitter end" on hands) this evolution is all the more obvious -
hypnotizing, heavy pulsating soundscapes with very few carefully placed
skips and glitches and processed vocal samples. there also were 12"
split with needle sharing on hands, another joint work with xingu hill
(xhm2 "this anxious space" on hymen with fantastic packaging), and
"panacea shares needles with tarmvred" on ad noiseam where some of the
samples from "14id1610s" (which in itself was a huge sample bank from
ant-zen) found their place in both panacea's and tarmvred's tracks.
it would be appropriate to mention that those that got to see
squaremeter live (last two big dates were "forms of hands02" and
"maschinenfest02") will remember it as one of the most memorable
performances - slowly building intense sonic attacks, bass resonating
from the walls, contrasted by precise imperfections of skips and clicks,
intensified by the lighting.
needless to say, most of the material mentioned above was reviewed on
"seven" throughout the years...
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anton
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