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StasisfieldManchester, New Hampshire's Dave Seidel offers a microtonal ode to the four primal elements. Water, fire, earth and air are represented here by elegant synthetic sounds and digitally manipulated field recordings. Working primarily in Csound, Seidel sculpts swathing drones and digital flutters into monolithic representations of his natural subjects. Technicians will undoubtedly consult Seidel's notes included in the album's digital packaging as well as the more extensive essays on his personal website for details of these tracks' construction, while aesthetes will likely lose themselves in their overwhelming beauty. |
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Socrates, 9/3/2009
Seriously Moowie-Woowie and entirely legal (except in Utah). I would seriously suggest finding some quality time for yourself, send the kids out to the yard, buy a decent Audio system, draw the curtains, crank up the volume (plenty of Bass) and drift through the endless cascading layers of Elementals. This works stands out among the Terabytes of essentially very worthy, but ultimately dull modern progressive music. And Quelle Horreur! - It doesn't take an abiding sense of duty to the Cause to listen to. Karlheinz will be spinning in his grave.. MindStar, 9/1/2009 Elementals - an order of magnitude more sophisticated than the usual ambient noodlings. 'Nur' stands out as an Antithesis of Noise, with an impossibly rich layering that's heard different with each listening. Seidel is on the way to a place at the table with his heroes, he credits as his inspiration.. Jonathan Gams, 9/1/2009 So here I am surrounded by new age androids listening to your elements #2... in quasi bliss. Next thing I know the integrative doctor across the hall knocks on the door and says the droning sound is making him so he can't think. In fact he is highly agitated. I say, "but Mark, these are healing sounds proven to cure depression." I say also that he can close his door. He does. Five minutes later he knocks again and says he can still hear the "sound." I say, "but i turned it off." He says "I can still hear it over there." I go over with him and can't hear anything but a deep resonant whirring sound. I say, "Mark, that sound isn't coming from my office." We go all over the building looking for another cause. We find that the sound is emanating from a closet upstairs. It turns out that there is a centerfuge for blood work that has been in that closet since he moved in three years ago. This is something they use every day. When we get downstairs he asks me to put the "music" back on so he is not as aware of the centerfuge. Now he can think but I can hear the centerfuge over the music.. |
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