Ellis Busch
2 Wig splitting gurglers that will increase your IQ just by pressing play. Perfect for late night headphone sessions while devouring code or simply melting into the matrix. Pointillistically tipped and highly recommended 🖤
Favorite track: Field Perturbation Study (Pointillistic).
The "Field Perturbation Studies" compositions are a generative sound art piece that explores the boundaries of time and frequency in a stereo field.
The work is generated using a system that creates randomly-sized dimensions, ranging from microsecond to multiple seconds. The dimensional vectors time range is shared across both mono channels, resulting in a temporally synchronized stereo field, although sonically isolated. Using only sinusoidal waves, the frequency range and slope of change, is conditionally generated from 1hz to 88,200hz, based on a variety of data points, and utilize aliasing to create a sweeping effect that reaches 44,100hz before reversing in frequency. The sound generated is also passed through a reverb UGEN with all parameters conditionally varied based on data points assessed in the duration of the dimensional vector, and the state of frequency shifted.
The compositions aim is to create a complex system, using relatively simple elements, and to use that complexity, in an attempt to overwhelm the listener's ability to articulate what is being heard. Ultimately leading the listener to a subconscious state of surrender, from a kind of exhaustion, or analytical fatigue. Playing off the natural tendency of people to attempt prediction of the changing pattern. Enveloping them in a dynamic, seemingly paradoxical cloud of both maximal and minimal qualities.
The work is inspired by long-form artists such as Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, Yoshi Wada and Catherine Christer Hennix. As well as, other systems music pioneers like Maryanne Amacher, David Tudor, Iannis Xenakis, Florian Hecker, Yasunao Tone and Mark Fell. As well as a burgeoning modern scene, of like minded musicians, and artists exploring the very limits of temporal and audible perception.
There is an included "Bonus Item" in the downloaded folder. With the compilation output of all 2,077 dimensional vectors in great detail for the "Field Permutation Study (Pointillistic)" composition.
More warm, uplifting, rapturously off-kilter grooves from the veteran UK producer, whose keen ear for samples remains sharper than ever. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 19, 2022
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teetering on the edge of rhythmic but standing firmly in the ground of odd tonality, this release leaves enough sonic space to infer one's own ideas about the form. Percussive type sounds bonk through the mix but all of them have a softness and power to them. bkudler