GARET, RICHARD - Areal

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: 23five Inc. 016

Release Year: 2012

Note: aether-ambient noises based on "electromagnetically disturbed" radio-sounds, using special techniques (like motors) to influence the radio-signals; filed under: mysterious radiation drones, highly recommended !

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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"On AreaI, Garet continues his ongoing research with electromagnetic disturbances through radio. Garet treats the radio process of transmission and reception as a routing system for the audio signal, all the while deliberately agitating and distressing the nodes that direct the course of that signal. For example, an electrical motor might be situated near a radio's antenna disrupting its ability to properly receive a transmission that Garet is broadcasting from nearby. Through the controlled use of electro-acoustic techniques (some rough and volatile, some refined and delicate), he organizes the signal distortion, the crackling static, and the ever-present tendencies for feedback into swarms of chiming resonance, electrically sourced harmonics, tactile bricolage, and impressionist din. As much as Garet's process pushes the interaction of sound and electricity to the brink of self-immolation, Areal balances his crunched textures with extended passages of radiant blooms of blurry noise and drone, finding common ground between the glassine density from Rhys Chatham and the splintered excursions of Kevin Drumm." [label info]

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