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Drifting patterns bounce around at obtuse angles in the magic hour fielded by Seminar Shadow’s “Luring.” Dueling piano motifs cast shadows on one another, a series of muted starbursts buoyed by an increasing sense of urgency. Seminar Shadow – the duo of Lucie Vítková and Teerapat Parnmongkol – combines emotive, melodic stippling with an undercurrent […]
An ongoing hellbroth churns in the electronic crevices that open Push For Night and Jon Mueller’s collaborative excess, “Lapsed Gasps.” Cryptic, indeterminate images move across the screen to help scatter the shuddering waves of sonic debris, droning oscillations into new, impossible shapes. Mueller and Push For Night bend our imaginations around eerie landscapes permeated by […]
Trauma presents itself in uncountable ways, and electroacoustic composer Amma Ateria uses sound to explore the aftermath of a severe impact to the orbital and frontal bone. On “repetition: changes,” movements shift into different planes with disorienting effects. Repetitive tones ascend and fall, intersected by sharp timbres and percussive glitches. Our mind tries to focus […]
The slow crawl toward death leaves scratched-out messages in the dust on “Bobcat Sarabande,” the closing track of Old Saw’s forthcoming album, Sewn the Name. Banjo strums and 12-string reveries plot our demise, creeping on top of the skeletal tones from Ira Dorset’s fiddle. Purpose is defined as the reason for which something exists, and in […]
French-Canadian composer (currently based in the Netherlands) Carmen Jaci creates a frenetic sound world built on joyful melodies, intricate productions, and a sense of humor. I’ve been listening to “Danse lunaire” for weeks, and it keeps revealing new secrets. Jaci’s voice is the marker, peppered throughout as a guidepost through the constantly-moving sonic maze. Miniscule […]
Pristine soundforms turn into warm, enticing atmospheres on Brett Naucke’s latest, Cast a Double Shadow. His music has a certain precision, as though the synthetic layers are a multilevel, unfathomable machine moving like clockwork through the shifting cosmos. The music in “A Glass Touch” is heightened by the video’s slow movements and cool color palette. Melodic […]
Night blossoms into a kaleidoscopic dance of flames in the hypnotic opening moments of Meg Mulhearn’s “Balance Wheel.” Plucked strings shuffle, echoing through dark patterns as an invitation to explore these beckoning, resonant spaces. It’s music that looks inward with protective intentions, bringing fraught and broken mantras into a fragile balance, with Mulhearn’s voice rising […]
Chaos spits repeating mantras under its breath. Weirdly melodic earworms spin through the frenzied, ramshackle rhythms like a tornado ripping apart the cheapest metal barn imaginable. While opiated up to the gills and awaiting surgery for a freak accident, Max Syedtollan reinvented his approach and decided to tear everything down to the bones. The frenetic […]
Sinemsis’s 2022 album, Dua, left a lasting mark. In her track-by-track feature for Foxy Digitalis last year, she hinted that this remix was in the works. KMRU’s interpretation of one of Dua’s central pieces holds its melancholy at a distance. Swelling pads shape the air around them, glowing, an invitation to step inside and feel the lamenting spirit washing through […]