{"id":11777,"date":"2025-10-13T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:59:48","slug":"marc-behrenss-clould-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11777","title":{"rendered":"Marc Behrens\u2019s \u201cClould\u201d reviewed by\u00a0The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We\u2019re still reeling from Mut Att Narc Imm<\/em> which we noted in 2019, continuing in our way to typecast this player as severe and extreme in his very distinct approach to minimalism, but it\u2019s more likely we\u2019re still enduring self-induced nightmares and sleepless nights from that image of a red claw<\/a>. In fact this fellow has a wide range of milieu in which he operates, including installations, performance, theatre, fine art and photography, and not just making records. It\u2019s also important to note that text and image are arguably equally valuable weapons in his Stanley FatMax bag. Matter of fact even the title of Clould<\/em> is an ingenious compacted piece of textual wordplay, splicing together the \u201cclouds\u201d so familiar to both weathermen and airline pilots, and the verb \u201ccould\u201d \u2013 strongly implying something our own human potential for doing something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having suggested early on that we, as human beings, believe in supernatural beings who live in the clouds and influence us (citation needed), Behrens returns to matter-of-fact realist mode by presenting us with five segments of sound art that have their origins in airports and airplanes. That\u2019s right, field recordings taken from these environments \u2013 and I seem to recall that recordings made inside a jet airliner were once quite common among avant-garde sound artists, as they flew from one highly-paid gig to another, but Behrens intends something quite different. For one thing, he\u2019s reprocessing voice recordings (radio announcements?) on these tapes, and grinding them down into atomistic fragments, thereby making some further conceptual and artistic points \u2013 he likes the idea that ghosts can appear out of these digital artefacts, that he\u2019s somehow deconstructing language, and even that he\u2019s realigning things on the principles of Buddhist mysticism in some fashion. By this means he circles back to his original proposition about the gods who live in the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this thought-equation certainly works on a cerebral level, not all the music here succeeds in manifesting the ideas very strongly, not even when we get to the lengthy climax of the \u20185th Movement\u2019, where the voices truly start to emerge. The nuances of tone variation here are handled with tremendous skill, but the over-familiar digital crunching and time-stretching techniques used on the voice parts are a bit naff, and tend to distract from the plan. I\u2019m not asking for an Erich Von Daniken moment, but surely the voices of the Gods ought to be more convincing, more profound, more articulate than this? Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re still reeling from Mut Att Narc Imm which we noted in 2019, continuing in our way to typecast this player as severe and extreme in his very distinct approach to minimalism, but it\u2019s more likely we\u2019re still enduring self-induced nightmares and sleepless nights from that image of a red claw. In fact this fellow has a wide … <\/p>\n

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