CNV35
release date: 29.Oct.2006

K.M.KREBS - The Blue Concubine

Vital Weekly 554

Kevin M. Krebs is lesser known as Asher and all I know is that his work was recorded in Seoul earlier this year. Apparently using manipulations of concrete and abstract electronics, he creates a work that is perhaps a bit of an odd-ball in the catalogue of Con-V as it's a much louder than a regular Con-V release. In all five pieces, Krebs playing the abstract electronics part. The whatever origin of concrete sounds are merely used to trigger a set of computer plug ins or perhaps somethings max/msp, and once set in motion, things develop by themselves, or so it seems. Perhaps I am entirely wrong. However the outcome is rather noise related, although never over the top, it has familiar lines to noise, through the use of distortion like sounds. But Krebs stretches his sound and that adds a sort of ambient feel to the music. Ambient industrial, so to say, and as such not so new sounding, except perhaps it comes out of a computer. It pretty much alright, but not great.

[ Frans de Waard ]

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