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OETZ/WAGNER/STUART - PERMANENT FLOW (ACCRETIONS) |
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Noise can be music, in its own way. You have to accept the music ethic of experimental audio artists and that beauty exists outside conventional musical avenues. Sometimes, nontraditional audio can supply the listener with evocative textures that maybe straight music just isn’t cut out for. “Permanent Flow” is imbued with the enveloping nature of electronic ambient, etc., but it boasts a sound that is strongly rooted in the organic. One almost imagines random bursts from a variety of classic musical instruments while tribal percussiveness is scattered into the audio picture to deepen the textures. The pieces are elongated and you can hear the negative space (the space between sounds); the negative space becomes a vital part of the sound structure as it juxtaposes with the seemingly random squawks and thumps of the various instruments and items being utilized to generate the experimental non-vocal chatter of the sounds manipulated herein. This is a case where texture more than straightforward musicality dictates the artistic expression. Very nice for the open minded listener. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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