The Story of Personal Electronics (LOHD 01)
These three minute snippets showcase a range of abrasively mixed and treated
electronic sounds in prickly frequencies. A sample track begins as a fast
tapewind,picks up distortion,cuts to a purer,warbling oscillation,then to a
grating distorted reverberation, to finely honed bleeps, and finally a
fragment of bleached and distorted funk. Each is a superb minature odyssey in
abruptly spliced sound, recalling the Mego label's work in the mileage it gets
out of aggravated electronics. However the speed and range of its shifts bring
it closer,perhaps, to Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Track 23 provides a
lengthier 30 minute exercise in ring-modulated bliss.
Matt ffyche
wire #173