There’s a Quicktime movie on Two Novels too, an evocative hand-held camera night ride on the BMT Jamaica elevated subway. Brooklyn-based o.blaat, real name Keiko Uenishi, is best known for her interactive audio environments (including the reasonably self-explanatory “beat piece (with Ping-Pong game)” and “audio coat check”) but has laptopped her way throughout North America …
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Sonorités extrèmes comme plus souples, ce O.Blaat et ses guest stars ont déployés toute une inventivité rythmique pour mettre au point une musique séquentielle à basse de sonorités distordues pour créer un environnement semi fragile. C’est l’absence de toute mélodies qui renforce le côté indus minimaliste de cette oeuvre. On assiste par le biais des …
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@C are the Porto based electronic artists Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. Regularly utilising field recordings, samples and strange electronic sounds, over the course of three albums they have displayed a firm commitment to improvisation and deconstruction, in creating new and interesting links via their internal electronic dialogue. Their second outing on the strange and …
Pelo que verifiquei nos seus dois discos anteriores e se confirma em «v3», as propostas dos portuenses @c vivem do cruzamento de estéticas e de modos de abordagem, indo de reminiscências do techno ao experimentalismo improvisado, e do “beat†mais explÃcito ao desconstrucionismo pró-abstraccionista. É sobretudo esta última vertente que nos é presenteada na sua …
Microsuoni, elettronica sperimentale e variazioni tonali, condensati in una raffinata performance di Björgulfsson, Gough e Thorsson, registrata live al Melkfabriek, Den Bosh, nell’Ottobre del 2002 e successivamente editata da Robert Hampson negli studi del Thirst a Londra. Nonostante il titolo certamente non sintetico abbastanza chiari all’ascolto risuonano gli intenti di questi tre valenti musicisti, il …
La musica di “Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen” à chiaramente visionaria: la sua realtà è virtuale, esiste solo in uncontesto ben determinato, tracciato nei suoi confini da macchinosi esperimenti di ingegneria musicale, difficilmente decifrabili. E allora à il caso di chiudere per un momento gli occhi, di misurare il respiro concentrandosi sui battiti del …
For her debut, she brings a bunch of her friends aboard, downtowners like Ikue Mori, dj Olive, Toshio Kajiwara, Aki Onda, Kaffe Matthews, and violinist Eyvind Kang. All players get puréed in her Powerbook, along with subway screeches, ringtones, and other urban clamor. The second-half of the album is meant for headphones, and microscopic tones …
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With sleeve notes by Christian Marclay (who recorded her tapping her feet on the floor for his Footsteps record) and guest collaborations with the likes of Kaffe Matthews, Toshio Kajiwara, DJ Olive and Ikue Mori, Keiko Uenishi aka o.blaat’s debut album is something of an event. The album is split into two sections – the …
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Combining the compositional talents of Stilluppsteypa alumni Heimir Björgúlfsson and Helgi Thorsson with talented Australian Pimmon, Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen (Always Not Unfinished) documents two live performances at Melkfabriek, Den Bosch, which were further enhanced by the editing skills of Main’s Robert Hampson. By simply compiling the best bits and pieces of the …
Perfettamente calibrato e decisamente curato fino all’ultimo particolare, il debut album di o.blaat svela la sua dopoia anima attraverso un percorso destabilizzato ed allo stesso tempo illuminante. Opportunamente impreziosito dal geniale artwork di Helen Cho, “Two Novels” si distende su tappeti ambient dagli effetti perturbanti, esperimenti minimali dall’impatto straniante, glitch frastagliato e semi-destrutturazione. Spesso affiancata …
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