{"id":7694,"date":"2015-05-21T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:35:34","slug":"transmissions-reviewed-by-musique-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7694","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Musique Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cronica088-2014_520.jpg\" alt=\"Transmissions\" width=\"520\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cronica088-2014_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cronica088-2014_520-260x234.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes in a card wallet, simply and elegantly adorned with a close-up of machinery workings; this is very apt, since thats precisely the content of the disc, too. The cd has four tracks, ranging in duration from near three minutes, to a mammoth near-forty. All the pieces use the sounds of machines: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u009dPart 2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 utilise loom sounds as source material, whereas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 3\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Part 4\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are more broadly based on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153machine-tools sounds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. This truly industrial material is fashioned by Delplanque into collaged constructions, flitting between raw sounds and processing.<br \/>\nAs you might imagine, there is often a strong rhythmic element to the pieces; though, Delplanque keeps it shifting and modular &#8211; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cheap\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recourse to minimalist repetition, here. Rhythms emerge and develop, become layered; before another element enters and changes the direction. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d contains several sections like this, with the ordered hubbub of disparate machines whirring away in syncopation, before being morphed into underwater-sounding lurches and near-choral drones. The first two tracks (they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re presented in numerical order) are quite sparing and subtle in their use of processing, while the remaining two are perhaps more clearly stretched and transformed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 3\u00e2\u20ac\u009d creates a soundscape verging on eeriness and darkness, without perhaps ever achieving that; not that this is a criticism at all: as before, there are very few cheap or easy paths taken by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 4\u00e2\u20ac\u009d welds the atomised, if undoubtedly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153physical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, machine sounds to majestic, monolithic drones with cosmic overtones.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very good album indeed, using a potentially small (and limiting) palette of sounds superbly; with no sense of boredom or tiredness. Its further to Delplanque\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credit, that the first two pieces use so many unprocessed sounds &#8211; without ever becoming a dry exercise in field-recording. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a temptation in this area, to think that merely coupling and layering \u00e2\u20ac\u0153raw\u00e2\u20ac\u009d source material is enough: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pushes past that and creates something, not just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the materials, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the materials. Oddly enough, I was listening to the wonderfully stark \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rejector\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by the legendary Omit, yesterday and there are clear parallels to be drawn here. Both projects create austere, sometimes even barren, soundscapes out of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153primitive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d materials; both deal in ambiguous atmospheres and both have an enviable sense of space and environment. This is therefore, most definitely, a recommended album.<\/p>\n<p><em>Martin P<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musiquemachine.com\/reviews\/reviews_template.php?id=5415\">Musique Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1947316997\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=e99708\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/transmissions\">Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes in a card wallet, simply and elegantly adorned with a close-up of machinery workings; this is very apt, since thats precisely the content of the disc, too. The cd has four tracks, ranging in duration from near three minutes, to a mammoth near-forty. All the pieces use the sounds of machines: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Part 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmissions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Musique Machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[363,96],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-363","tag-mathias-delplanque","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}