Browse by Artist: RE:

Artist:	RE
Title:	Mnant
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	CST 015CD

"Mnant features densely layered songs formed by overlapping loops and filter treatments as well as spare compositions using only one or two fragments, similarly overlapped and filtered. Re: relies heavily on the 'cut & paste' technique popularized by microcomputers, though some pieces were executed largely in real time, just as in real life. All pieces, with a couple of obvious exceptions, are comprised (to some degree) of fragments performed in real time, out in the open air, with resonant devices, amplifiers, microphones, etc. Various filters were also often applied in real time, with hands on knobs tuning & calibrating & whatnot. In other cases, with reference to all of the above, the computer did the work & time was suspended. At one stage or another, all sounds were binarised & dealt with as such. Mnant is definitely the deepest that Constellation has yet plunged into the depths of machine-created music. The half of Constellation who is not part of Re: and who retains some objectivity re: re:) believes this foray to be as masterful and nuanced as anything we've released to date."

Artist:	RE
Title:	Alms
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CST 032CD

"The second full length from this genre defying duo is a somber and richly detailed work that invokes a dystopic environment where the 'natural' and 'organic' are inseparable from electricities, radioactivities and the detritus of military-industrial technologies and materials. Through micro recordings of metallic objects and resonances, field recordings, and raw filter bank improvisations, Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky (Hangedup, CST honcho) construct a sonic landscape of polluted signal sources, weaving tentative, fading signs of humanism into the mix by way of piano, organ and drums. The result is a tense, highly dynamic narrative of full spectrum compositions that strive to celebrate, critique and eulogize freedom in a barbarically overdetermined world. Alms is an invocation of and lament for the wreckage left in the wake of 'growth' and 'stability' (our local system of audio paths and patches reflecting the garble and garbage of the global): A confession of computer indulgence and easy access to technology and creative play: A tiny sonic treatise on the poverty of our times and how we shield ourselves from it with various modes of, more or less, sublimated imposition."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page