re: Dutch listers...

[p/s <panelgroove@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(kind of a) translation..  :)



The compositions of Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder, aka Twine are typical
products of the digital age. Both work as sound-engineers in different parts
of the u.s., but build music step by step over the internet. Sounds and
samples are exchanged and put toghether to unusal structures, wich in spite
of their abstractness, really take you by the throat.
Last years 'circulation' (on Komplott) was in our opinion a modest
sound-architectural masterpiece, and their performance at the (K-raa-K)3
festival was also very impressive, so our expectations where quite high.
There's a lot expect in the near future: within a few months there will be
new material on Fallt and Hefty and there music will be featured on
different installations, like the Sonic Process project in Barcelona.
In the meantime we can enjoy 'Recorder' on Bip-Hop, wich is again a
challenging and inventive search towards new sound-structures. Twine's music
is inspired by the ideas of John Cage and Stockhausen, and originates in
deconstruction and decontextualisation of sound and develops itself into a
digital generated network of communicating spaces. The liberated sounds
search seek their own place in the chaos, curiuos and restless. In 'None
Some Silver' is a lethargic guitarriff attacked by a fire of noise, wich
exhales a pitchblack fog of noise. In 'Cign' are beats echoing in panic,
while in the distant darkness a chello mourns. In 'Fine Music' the listener
is sucked into a dark swamp where all kinds of unreachable sounds and voices
the increase the tention. It are sound-spaces filled with shades wich seem
to appear from everywhere and nowhere at the same time, shift shape and
colour and asure you that nothing is what is seems. Like in 'Player Piano',
where a musing pianomelody disappears without a trace between layers of
distortion and fragmentated voices, to appear again later and reverberate on
a drowned orchestra.
The music of Twine is largely based on random generated sound-organisms:
abstract noises, fragmentated melodies, alianated sounds have their own, new
meanings with massive impact and strange emotions shift between melancholy,
fear and doubt. "I know I should be sad, and I am, part of me is, but its
like ... its like I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible
nightmare all at once" echoes in 'There is No One Else'.
A sample from Twin Peaks, wich discribes the atmosphere perfectly.


greets,
peter


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