Circuit bending -- taking something with electronics in it such as a children's toy and short-circuiting it, could be a symptom of a new pathology.
But it's actually a technique used by some musicians to create new sounds. For the gifted musician Brian Transeau, music isn't just created from your D major chords here and your legatos there. A new vocabulary is being created.
That makes it impossible to tag precisely his fifth album called This Binary Universe, though symphonic electronica gives you an idea.
It's an extraordinary state-of-the-art album in which a swirl of moods, themes, styles, and techniques coalesce into a gorgeous, thrilling universe of its own. And be sure to watch the DVD that is part of the package -- it provides some compelling animated visuals to accompany the music.
written on Monday Apr 2, 2007
symphony,
soundscape,
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