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Binaural motorcar drones quietly lead to dertiende uni, to be met by bird squawks, random clatter, electronic blips, muted radio voices and hushed musical tones, combined in a sparse and unobtrusive sound collage. The faint unidentifiable slithers of veertiende uni merge with highly resonated clunks, static and morse-code-like beeps, becoming rather noisier before the piece's near-silent conclusion.
Almost inaudibly, zestiende uni chimes to life with faraway hums and frequencies slipping past like beams of light. Muffled clanging and more gauzey soundwaves ensue.
Fluttering electropulses and machinery-like accompaniment come and go in achtiende uni (2:45), while negentiende uni evolves from a single channel of shifting static; eventually, deep tones curl around each other amid a subtle haze...
Clunkily echoing bells ring in twintigste uni, followed by sporadic thumps and bumps as if someone is wrestling with a particularly uncooperative aparatus; the quietly minimal approach at its end is more intriguing. Washy and gray, tweeëntwintigste uni submerges in a subtle tableau of mildly deformed sound, creating a most lovely drear.
Apparently recorded at a French festival, Paris (29:58) is a place of many, many, many sounds... metronomic taps, raucously clanging bells, ignition switches, electronic gurgles, rhythmic bursts, pulsating buzzdrones, teakettle-like whistles, churning static, breaking pottery, and other sources so utterly warped as to be undefinable... and that's only in the opening 3.5 minutes of this gargantuan monstrosity of audio experimentation. It's not enough that the sound sources are fom everywhere; changing moods and varying levels of intensity further distort "normal" listening contexts... if nothing else, it's unpredictable, as the ear never knows what will hit it next. Often quiet enough to be considered ambient, though on several occasions the track ventures into noiser realms of chaos, including prolonged blasts of intense static which some conceivably may find torturous.
The 69-minute disc ends with a "hidden" untitled track of distortions of pre-recorded source material (part of which seems to be the opening notes of the "Addams Family" theme perhaps?). This one seems less like art, and more like someone just screwing around with the equipment really.
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