Simon Whetham has a considerable history of taking sound recordings – often environmental sounds – and working them into something unrecognisable, by means of various sonic and software mutations. Against Nature emerged from an exploration of what Whetham describes as ‘errors and failures’, using ‘badly built microphones, over-burdened amplifiers, motors driven by sound impulses, misbehaving …
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If field recordings are often the attempt to freeze-frame nature in all its everlasting purity, then Simon Whetham’s latest album of manipulated ambient is decidedly Against Nature. Conceived as part of his ongoing project to record certain environmental sounds and then allow incidental disturbances to creep into their engineering/mixing/production, the Londoner’s new collection of five …
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‘Against Nature’, comprises of five tracks with the same title (that of the album). Coupled with a press release that provides more in a literary context than its audio companion could ever, can make your mind boggle as to just what medication people are on (or should be). Regardless of the reference to the decadent …
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Episode 160 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, February 19th. The playlist of Futurónica 160 is: Simon Whetham, Against Nature [1] (2016, Against Nature, Crónica) Simon Whetham, Against Nature [2] (2016, Against Nature, Crónica) Simon Whetham, Against …
Soon to come as cat.no. 103 of the Portoguese Cronica Electronica-imprint is Simon Whetham’s most recent album entitled “Against Nature” which consists of five takes of the same name, all recorded and generated throughout his residency at the Agder Kunstsenter in Kristiansand / Norway in late 2013. “Against Nature [1]” is a quiet, partly repetetive …
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It’s always a good strategy to open with a salvo of tension, dynamics and volatility. The threat of another will continue to loom throughout the following, lending a disquiet to even the most minimal of passages. Such is the unveiling of these five chapters in a highly refined practice of telescoping sound from the British …
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Une façon peut-être de s’éloigner du field recording pur… Simon Whetham joue ici contre nature : cinq fois, à partir de sons attrapés en compagnie d’Agder Kunstsenter en Norvège entre octobre et novembre 2013. La branche sur laquelle il se pose n’est donc plus réaliste : pas concrète non plus, puisque l’électronique la travaille. Souffles …
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Against Nature by Simon Whetham
Against Nature by Simon Whetham
Episode 142 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, June 12th. The playlist of Futurónica 142 is: Emmanuel Mieville, Phono-Ting (2015, Siebzehn bis ∞, Crónica) Cello + Laptop, Welcome (2015, Segments, Audiotalaia) Francisco López, Untitled #324 (2015, Siebzehn …
