Exploratory London label Feedback Moves chase ace Lolina and Pat Thomas cuts with the coarse, animist concrète blatz of yPLO’s debut battery
yPLO is the combo of Michael Speers, a North Irish performer and composer fascinated with drums, and writer and sound artist, Paul Abbott, who completed his PhD at Uni of Edinburgh under supervision of Florian Hecker. On ‘ob TRU’ they pitch combined decades of research and craft into a project about imaginary drums and rhythms, deploying conventional and unusual percussive sources and synthetic sounds in irregular, beguiling arrangements that challenge the listener’s perception of sound moving within space.
Performed live at Café OTO in 2018 and recorded by Adam Asnan (whose own work shares similarities with this one) and James Dunn, the eight pieces of ‘ob TRU’ build upon Speers decade of focussed research on the ground drum, and Abbott’s wide ranging work, encompassing jams with Pat Thomas thru free improv on Another Timbre, in order to get under the skin of the drum and percussive objets, examining their meaning and materiality.
Variously feeling out amplified mylar (a polyester film prized for its high tensile strength), floor tom, bass drum, mixers and mics in the performance, the post-edited results form captivating misshapes rife with gripping, buzzing tonalities resembling industrial skronk, algorithmic computer music and free jazz played by robots. In other hands this could be a dry mess, but Speers & Abbott bring a sensual poetry to proceedings with a pacing and feel for rhythmelodic texture that should seduce experimental ears to their conceptual bent and curious results.
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Artwork by Louise Le Du. Recorded by Adam Asnan & James Dunn. Mastered by Amir Shoat.
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Exploratory London label Feedback Moves chase ace Lolina and Pat Thomas cuts with the coarse, animist concrète blatz of yPLO’s debut battery
yPLO is the combo of Michael Speers, a North Irish performer and composer fascinated with drums, and writer and sound artist, Paul Abbott, who completed his PhD at Uni of Edinburgh under supervision of Florian Hecker. On ‘ob TRU’ they pitch combined decades of research and craft into a project about imaginary drums and rhythms, deploying conventional and unusual percussive sources and synthetic sounds in irregular, beguiling arrangements that challenge the listener’s perception of sound moving within space.
Performed live at Café OTO in 2018 and recorded by Adam Asnan (whose own work shares similarities with this one) and James Dunn, the eight pieces of ‘ob TRU’ build upon Speers decade of focussed research on the ground drum, and Abbott’s wide ranging work, encompassing jams with Pat Thomas thru free improv on Another Timbre, in order to get under the skin of the drum and percussive objets, examining their meaning and materiality.
Variously feeling out amplified mylar (a polyester film prized for its high tensile strength), floor tom, bass drum, mixers and mics in the performance, the post-edited results form captivating misshapes rife with gripping, buzzing tonalities resembling industrial skronk, algorithmic computer music and free jazz played by robots. In other hands this could be a dry mess, but Speers & Abbott bring a sensual poetry to proceedings with a pacing and feel for rhythmelodic texture that should seduce experimental ears to their conceptual bent and curious results.