{"id":8476,"date":"2016-07-25T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2016-12-31T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:17:05","slug":"prevailing-wind-tangled-under-reviewed-by-touching-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=8476","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prevailing Wind, Tangled Under\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Touching Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAttributing a value to forlorn locations through the assessment of their resonant qualities represents a sort of transference of power. When a sound artist \u00e2\u20ac\u201c presumably gifted with deeply perceptive features \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sets conditions for a given structure to vibrate, the spontaneous generation of a different type of life occurs. The resulting interaction gains or loses strength according to contingent forces at work, but \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sure enough \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the hugeness of a reverberation is one of the few things able to connect the most audacious experiment to the realization of being, after all, extremely limited.<\/p>\n

John Grzinich \u00e2\u20ac\u201c assisted in some of these recordings by Simon Whetham and Arlene Tucker \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is one of the best \u00e2\u20ac\u0153men for the job\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when it comes to producing sonic elements with a purpose from materials that would appear as good as dead to the average observer. In Prevailing Wind, Tangled Under he sensibly elected to let a water tower in Mooste, Estonia express its acoustic vigor without interruptions. A modicum of variety in the timbral gamut comes from what the mastermind describes as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crawling about, climbing, plucking, bowing, striking, howling, stringing and generally playing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The 46 minutes reveal a practical harmonization between the human and the (theoretically) inanimate. Occasionally, a welcome complement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the chanting of assorted species of birds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c introduces further suggestions beyond the ominous roars, wavering frequencies and various clangors characterizing at large the textural mass.<\/p>\n

The whole transmits a sense of conscious persistence, in a way symbolizing an obstinate attempt to distil juices of critical energy in places where most people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s logic would suggest a refusal of possibilities. Molecules are everywhere, though; hence, our weight in the universal ambit equals that of a rock (or a water tower, for that matter). Better learn the lesson once and for all. Massimo Ricci<\/em><\/p>\n

via Touching Extremes<\/a><\/p>\n