CNV25
release date: 30.Nov.2005

CHRISTOPHER McFALL - A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine

Earlabs - 30.03.2006

I either missed or just plain ignored this release initially, but it captured my attention when a track from it (“1517 Cherry”) appeared as the lead track on idmix014 [Ideal Standard (jm)]. It’s always nice when a sound artist gives the listener a hint as to how the sounds were created. Here we have three abstract compositions based on field recordings (highway underpasses for instance)and then processed "beyond recognition". “Microdissect” delivers what sounds like rumbling waves of thunder, shredded segments of tiny sounds, and brief moments of quiet. “Morphonlino Wrench” is an excellent example of the lowercase aesthetic playing moments of silence against high pitched tones and dancing microsounds only to end in chaos. “1517 Cherry” contains the most variety of the three tracks – deep rolling drones, cascading noises, clicks, metallic clanks, bursts of static, and chaotic percussive moments.

[ Larry Johnson ]

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