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Re: [microsound] The Crystalline Address (review)



Kim:

Where was this review published?

Thanks,
-=Trace

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From: "Kim Cascone" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: [microsound] The Crystalline Address (review)

> thanks to Doug Benford for fwd'ing this to me! :)
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>  THE CRYSTALLINE ADDRESS
>  Scanner/Kim Cascone
>  Sub Rosa
>  25 Nov 2002
>
>
> Bill Tilland says:
> Given the nature of their "instruments," one would be hard-pressed to
> isolate the individual contributions of Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) and
Kim
> Cascone on this collaborative release. In the past, Scanner's attention
has
> typically been directed toward the random pulses, static, white noise and
> other ambiguous messages from shortwave radios and cellphones, while
> Cascone, who has a background in computer music, has tended toward
> abstract, meticulously controlled electroacoustic compositions. The
> potential for fruitful collaboration certainly exists here, and regardless
> of who is doing what, the interaction of the two sound artists is clearly
a
> success. A wide range of sounds is presented for the listener's
> consideration - from crunches, crackles, hisses and pops to wobbly
> oscillations, twitterings, clear bell-like tones and vast, sonorous
drones.
> And thanks (probably) to Cascone, the material is carefully organized,
with
> its own underlying logic and structure. Consequently, the result is much,
> much more that just a collection of curious noises.
>
> The two pieces on the CD are roughly twenty minutes each. They use a
number
> of common sound elements, but the first, "Behavioral Sink," is somewhat
> more spacious, and has a more pastoral ambience. It's easy to see/hear
this
> music in terms of a "soundpainting," with the two artists collectively
> creating electronic landscapes populated with strange electro-mechanical
> creatures making their way within a bewildering, inscrutable geography,
> caressed by gentle cosmic winds. The second track, "Atavistic Endeavor,"
is
> somewhat busier, with at least a touch of menace - but still light years
> and decibels away from the predictable weight of hardcore industrial. The
> soundworlds on display in The Crystalline Address are no doubt
inhospitable
> to carbon-based lifeforms, but the environments are dynamic and
interactive
> -- and presumably quite congenial to their inhabitants.
>
> As is usual with Cascone, sounds themselves are recorded with great
clarity,
> and this CD will be a real treat for all fans of electro-acoustic
> music.
> 25 Feb 2003
>
>
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