CD-R and Quest.Room.Project =97 =93Digital Snow=94
This free compilation/collaboration, released today, is well worth
your time - if you can actually hear it. The opening track is barely
audible and undoubtedly the quietest piece of music on this site. Its
authors describe it as the introduction to =93electroacoustic glitch or
=91post-noise.=92=94
http://www.netaudio.ru/musica-excentrica/releases/exc014/
ZIP with 320kbps mp3 (91mb)
http://listen.excentrica.org/releases/exc014/exc014_mp3.zip
ZIP with FLAC lossless (307mb)
http://listen.excentrica.org/releases/exc014/exc014_flac.zip
=93Pre-noise=94 would be equally accurate.
=93Pre-noise=94 would be equally accurate.
Nikita Golyshev, shown above and known professionally as CD-R,
authored =93Digital Snow=94 together with Bogdan Dullsky
(Quest.Room.Project [below]). They worked togehther on this recording
virtually, not physically, merging pre-recorded files with real-time
performances over a peer-to-peer connection.
In a recent interview, Dullsky explained the interplay between file
swapping and improvisation as follows. He tried defining a balance
between the limits of prerecorded sounds and the limitless choices of
absolute, aimless freedom.
Somewhere in between lies creativity: =94When it comes to improvisation,
this is what I do=85 The first things to consider are the given
cir***stances. It=92s a bit like an actor trying to relive something
with his [boundless] heart, albeit inside the limits of the stage. He
tries both to relive his character=92s experience and to allow it
=91through=92 him. In the same way - in those same cir***stances of an
amorphous [yet restrictive] room - you=92ve got to hunt down the main
thing. It=92s what people sometimes call =91liberty.=92 The driving force
behind this project was something similar; we were looking both for
stimuli and for reactions to them. If you spend most of your time with
a musical instrument in your hands, then a musical syntax, a harmony-
based view of the world in all its depth and spatial modes will come
together. What I mean is=85 there=92s no need for [desperately-sought]
originality=85 Originality is something you simply cannot avoid!=94
The result of this give-and-take is what these two musicians call =93a
collage of both acoustic and digital pieces, gathered in one
snowfall.=94 Their light, almost unnoticable touch is evident in the
opening and closing tracks, simply titled =93Parts One and Eight.=94
The first and shorter of the two seems a fitting embodiment of the
wonderful cover art by Grigorii Kochenov: a light dusting of
fractured, twinkling elements through which other distant structures
(other songs, perhaps?) can barely be discerned.
Digital Snow
http://ffm.soyuz.ru/
http://www.netaudio.ru/musica-excentrica/releases/exc014/
http://www.netaudio.ru/nikita-golyshev/?cd-r
http://www.dullsky.net/
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