From Vienna comes one Davor Mikan, of whom I never heard, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhere he creates music about failure, beauty, lust and delusion in the context of psychoacoustic effects and in a personal sense (self-delusion)\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as it is said on the blurb. He is using generative graphic tools together with granular synthesis to transform sound. Whatever that may mean, even when I think he uses sound software to transform work generated with software that is in general used for design. Which is not a new thing, as some programs do allow you to open a text or image file and then it will \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcread\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as music. Judging by the same what harsh, crude and loud music Mikan produces on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcT\u00c3\u00a4uschung\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 this is the case here (unless he uses the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpencil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the audio software program to re-draw sound curves, which might give a similar effect). Thirty one tracks, spanning just over thirty seven minutes means that we are dealing with short pieces here. Very short but partly loud pieces. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recall such a noise based release on Cronica, which I think is a good move. Noise, certainly when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done well, is the new main thing. Be it the crude, Merzbowian blasts of noise, the lo-fi noise of New America, the end of soft glitch seems imminent. See last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Josh Russell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s release and this week it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mikan. Maybe the pieces could move away from the sketch like character and grow into something more composed like, but otherwise this is a most promising start. (FdW)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Vienna comes one Davor Mikan, of whom I never heard, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhere he creates music about failure, beauty, lust and delusion in the context of psychoacoustic effects and in a personal sense (self-delusion)\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as it is said on the blurb. He is using generative graphic tools together with granular synthesis to transform sound. Whatever that … <\/p>\n