[microsound] Silence Resounding

[scott allison <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So this recent cd by Miki Yui on LINE is one of my favorite's for 2003.

Nice direction to see LINE going in, nice blending of natural/synthetic 
sounds. The artist allows her sounds to mix/bleed together with a light 
sensitive hand. The tracks at times feel like meditations on silence without 
the complete use of total silence. Nice titles as well, smoke, out in the 
dark, small fish, d.rain... the titling really places the tracks in such a 
way as to allow you a frame of reference without losing a level of 
abstractness when hearing in conjunction to the music/sound. So you'll hear 
some tones that at times are painful mixed with what seems to be 
processed/filtered recordings and other other times what seems to be lightly 
treated field recordings. Yui's hand is often pushing sounds towards you in 
soft flushes or allowing a sonic field to subtle build. Evokes memories or 
at least the idea of memories, like being locked in a gold storage container 
or something from child hood like that. Really nice to listen to with a pair 
of headphones, overall a very organic wonderful set of recordings and a 
excellent follow up to her first release for LINE. Really this cd allows the 
listener to build a sound world of thier own much in the way Motion or the 
first few Hecker cds seem to operate, nice and understated. Also included 
are a few a drawings by the artist that really seem to become 
maps/scores/visualiztions of the enclosed audio.

-scott "stop spelling it wrong and finish your work" allison

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