Wednesday 14 April 2010

TAGCLOUD – LONG DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 13 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)


TAGCLOUD – LONG DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 13 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)

A TagCloud is a visual representation for text data.  In this example it is a sonic endeavour that hangs as the result of supposedly naïve experiments that involve manipulation of found sounds and field recordings.  This is music in a most natural form, one that serves to explain and expound the author’s surroundings in a tactical fashion.

The TagCloud version of the LDWR EP is one of the most dragged out and quiet contributions of the project.  There is no rush here and not necessarily any dynamic either.  It’s all about atmosphere and establishing a scene, a mood to contrast existence against.  Subtly it fills the room.  And not necessarily with light.

This work originates from Washington D.C. (the second version of the project after BLK w/BEAR to come from the city).  It is a place I imagine to be suffocating, that despite housing some of the most important people on the planet, there is shocking degradation in its motion.  And with such a mentality, for me this is how these tracks work.

Impressively track two finds itself stretched to over eleven minutes sounding like some ethereal orchestra on a journey to a higher plain making it one of the most expansive issues of the project.

This afternoon my mother overheard me listening to this release and asked “am I in mourning?” I guess representing the bleak tone in its execution.  In its explanation, it has its uses.

Thesaurus moment: barren.

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