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MANNING, ROSS - Te t on on ti computer

Format: MC Label & Cat.Number: More Mars team mm26 Release Year: 2019 Note: we recently became fans of this Greek label, here's another very special release: ROSS MANNING is an Australian sound artist who builds his own half-mechanic/electronic/motor-driven percussion sculptures made by steel, aluminium and scrap metals that 'play themselves', creating complex aural landscapes... "His practice offers an exploration into the otherworldly by repositioning the mundane" [Visual ArtsHub9] / C-43 tape, lim. 80 copies, numbered Price (incl. 19% VAT): €9.00 More Info Ross Manning is a contemporary new media artist from Brisbane, Australia. He focus on alive instrument practises, kinetic and sound composition. He is using mainly recordings of his own percussion instruments made by steel, aluminium and scrap metals. Ross Manning is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, exploring the rhythm and the recycling energy of them. His sound works has published on moremars, Room40, vitrine, Chemical Imbalance and Greedy Ventilator. In both sides of his “te t on on ti computer” release, he present us two different aspects of his musical direction. The first side is a montage, with a big variety of distorted sounds and pure tones, that reproduced by his custom-made instruments and electronic sources. Noisy parts mixed with chaotic metal percussions and drones, are constructing a sonic sculpture that even if the individual elements have a complex structure, the final result sounds simple and mysterious. On the second side, there is a long composition made by his self-made string panels, that they produce rhythmic patterns, that are changing form through the kinetic energy. Sonically, there is a sense of gamelan music, with melodic motifs that gradually change to a more complex form, with the composition to get more busy, constructing an extremely dense amalgamation of sounds. www.moremars.org/store/products/ross-manning-te-t-on-on-ti-computer-cassette/ "Greece's More Mars released a cassette by Ross Manning before (see Vital Weekly 1062). This Australian musician is not particularly fond of much information on his covers, so I still have no idea what he does, but last time I wrote: "Manning creates his own instruments since a very early age and on this cassette we find four of his pieces using these DIY electronics and "shelf-made string pannel" [sic]", so perhaps it is fair to say he is still doing that. The chaotic approach of before is now gone and there is much more control to be noted in these pieces, which works very much for the benefit of the music. Of course, he is doing a similar instrument here, which is something I am not sure of. It is a most enjoyable release here, in which Manning carefully explores the sounds he produces with his devices. On the first side, there is a beautiful drone-like exploration of this, somewhere in the middle of the tape, whereas on the second side there is a more percussive element in the music. Then it sounds like a bit nervous yet regular tapping of violin strings. Throughout there is a rough element in the music like it has been taped in a space, using an amplifier and space plays a small but not insignificant role here. It is a mighty step forward, I thought." [FdW/Vital Weekly]