{"id":497,"date":"2008-11-13T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-01-10T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T23:03:23","slug":"praxis-reviewed-by-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Praxis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/034-2008-2.jpg\" alt=\"Praxis cover\" \/><br \/>\nThis debut album by a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Izmir comes replete with an impressively elaborate self-description. It talks of &#8220;Phonetics themes&#8221;, using phonemes rather than words to tell stories, with digressions into &#8220;Nada Yoga&#8221; and the claim that the producer is &#8220;beholden to the harmoniousness of two essential properties that maintains the forcefulness of a cognition space.&#8221; Even after several readings, soundtracked by the aural results, it remains opaque what the actual links are between the theory and <em>Praxis<\/em>.<br \/>\nWhat we have here is a record that is consistently sophisticated, sometimes almost beautiful, but remarkably standard. The palette here \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a collage of field recordings, laptop distortion, minimal instrumentation and subterranean hums \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is remarkably familiar from any number of iBook creations released in the last decade or so. Praxis is a particular serene version of this idiom. The ideas seem to be confined to the jerky cut-ups of the opening &#8220;A Phonetics These&#8221;, whose spliced syllables evoke something between Stockhausen&#8217;s Stimmung and Goodiepal. After this, tracks are left to drift along prettily, in a by now predictable international laptop style.<br \/>\nThe rather misnamed &#8220;Visceral (In A Figurative Sense)&#8221; for instance, elegantly features doleful organ chords, a punctuating synth, and some background clutter and scrape, as if to give the impression that the piece is far less structured than it is. &#8220;Behold Now Bikkus, The Sounds of Nada Yoga&#8221; promises something slightly more outr\u00c3\u00a9, with its chants hovering in the background \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but there are no major departures.<br \/>\n<em>Owen Hatherley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This debut album by a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Izmir comes replete with an impressively elaborate self-description. It talks of &#8220;Phonetics themes&#8221;, using phonemes rather than words to tell stories, with digressions into &#8220;Nada Yoga&#8221; and the claim that the producer is &#8220;beholden to the harmoniousness of two essential properties that maintains the forcefulness of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Praxis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Wire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[405,28],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-405","tag-cem-guney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}