Foxy Digitalis
There’s a stillness at the heart of “Boy Made of Glass,” a piece that seems to breathe through its own uncertainty. Stephen Vitiello and Edwin Torres move through a landscape of fragile resonance, where creeping soundworlds cradle Torres’s words, alternately holding them in suspension and pressing close until the air feels charged. Samita Sinha’s presence, […]
The winding guitar melodies of gushes (Jennae Santos) “Stick Figures” blend mystery into hypnotic sonic codes, underpinning the dramatic fervor pulsing through the song’s core. The build tension in layers that orbit each other, desperate for collision, all while maintaining distance. Santos directs the video with ceremonial precision, transforming the Catskills into a ritual space […]
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill spin in slow motion as “Tunnels of Light” opens, hypnotic tones flickering in captivating, choreographed sequences. The combination of Sundanese gamelan instrumentation and atmospheric electronics creates a charge that’s fully unlocked by Hugh Marsh’s violin. “Tunnels of Light” bounces from mysterious and somewhat haunted zones into something moving and heavenly […]
“Atavistic Rites” is thick and full of serrated edges. Christoff and Martineau build heavy sonic layer after heavy sonic layer, creating snarling, breathing drones that encase us within something solid, something immovable. Their music is sharp and textural. It grabs us and refuses to relent. Guillaume Vallée’s video expands the shape of this sound with […]
“Blindsided” catches us in its web before we realize we’re trapped. “How to love in the face of this death?,” Sabra serenades in the chorus, spelling out the album’s core theme. The combination of the propulsive, almost buoyant rhythm with Sabra’s lilting vocal melodies and Tabbal’s layered electronics is captivating, both exultant and ethereal. We […]
Wide-angled views of waves prove lulling, almost hypnotizing in the video for “The Coiling of the Tide,” buoying the elegiac trumpet melody that feels eternal. Peter Knight’s horn breathes with the ocean’s rhythm, each sustained note drawing from the same wellspring that birthed these compositions: his summers spent on Australian shores, the interplay of wind […]
Ken Jacobs’ hand-painted slides twist counterclockwise through his Nervous Magic Lantern apparatus, hypnotic geometries pulsing against Aki Onda’s searing electronic fields. The visuals blur and bend time while Onda’s droning sonics, woven from decades of cassette field recordings and street conversations, provide rhythmic counterbalance to the flicker. What emerges is neither documentation nor pure abstraction […]
“Geology of Absence” registers like tremors beneath still water. Irene Gaumé’s video pairs Arvin Dola’s suspended tones with ghostlike geologic forms that shimmer and dissolve, stone becoming trace becoming memory. The imagery glows with soft iridescence, as if sediment holds light the way certain silences hold sound. Dola’s composition settles in layers, each one finding […]
A shimmering push and pull runs through “Cirrus” from TL;DR and Peter Knight, weightless and grounded all at once. Directed by Melbourne-based artist and filmmaker Lola Hewison, the video moves in lockstep with the ensemble’s subtle intensities and long arcs, never drawing too much attention to itself but always shaping the atmosphere. You can feel […]