Cascone/Kiritchenko/Kotra/Berthling

["Andrey Kiritchenko" <nexsound@xxxxxxx>]

Fourfold symmetry >

  The album is based upon the very questionable in itself creative concept of co-authorship, which is implemented through the sound exchange via regular and electronic mail: musicians play with each other s samples striving to carve out the new unpredictable sounding. This music is interesting and fascinating by its nature: despite the initial sources similarity the outcome is always highly individual and bears the personal impress of each musician in each track. This music is deficient and soulless for the exactly same reason: the emphasized anonymity and anti-emotionality of the sound collaging process serve as an artistic instrument used for protecting the creative identity and expressing the deeply personal conceptual notion of the world. The purpose of the music here is to deliberately put forth the numerous mistakes in order to invite listeners to the conjoint creation, immerse them into the process of stylistic sound making without offering a single ready-made solution. The rough musical thought presented without traditional cutting and polishing, the lack of sound completion and the absebce of its breakdown into more or less digestible musical elements all of a sudden become a tacit ideology of the project. The result comes through as a clicks and cuts on one hand, and the very process of creation displayed instead of the final product, on the other. This music can be called anything but refined, it contains all the mistakes and confusions that the authors may face in the process of its creation. But whereas the musicians playing the conventional clicks and cuts rely upon the orderly technical collapses, Fourfold Symmetry founds its creative concept on the aforecited antinome: the more electronic and machine-made their music is, the more humane and organic it sounds. All their defiant mistakes proclaim that the process of creation and erring (the latter being its inherent and essential part) has never been so versatile, inspiring and stimulating. This concept contains another paradox in itself: the more redundant, erratic and rough elements the music contains, the more complicated it is to create. The less effort is spend on its hominization, and the more rugged the cuts are, the more interesting it is to listen. 

  The Fourfold Symmetry music might annoy and tire with unfinished or overloaded constructions, rambling and obviously disjointed sounds, and unmotivated gaps in the tracks. And yet, it is these faults and flaws brought out with the utmost defiance that capture the listeners  attention and keep them on edge. While the intentional oddities of the music, its deliberate arbitrariness and imperfection arise very controversial feelings, they also restrain the music from becoming an acoustic background. Which is exactly what Fourfold Symmetry aspired to in the process of creation.

Come out in a special plastic package, on glassmastered cd.

http://www.nexsound.org/symmetry.html

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