Palace Of Marvels (Queered Pitch)
‘Palace of Marvels (Queered Pitch)’ follows 2007s ‘Altars of Science’ and continues veteran electronic experimenter Marcus Schmickler’s quest to explore the outer reaches of extreme computer music.
Apparently based on the ideas of the 1960s discovery of Roger Shepard’s ‘Shepard Tone’ – the auditary illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch but ultimately never gets higher or lower – this is synthesizer music for the more open minds out there. Like looking at an optical illusion, ‘Palace of Marvels’ cannot be experienced as a passive experience, you become instantly aware that the sound you are listening to is playing with your senses and making your mind work in ways it maybe hasn’t before.
I must say, the first time I played the record it made me feel almost queasy with the wavering tonal variations and quick arpeggiated sequences seemingly going everywhere and nowhere at once. This is a record that is almost impossible to describe as hearing it in high fidelity is the only way to experience the mind-unravelling effects Schmickler has intended us to feel. There is hardly a shortage of arpeggiated synthesizer music around at the moment with eMego’s Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never taking the centre stage on the ‘best of 2010’ lists, but Schmickler has taken these ideas and turned them on their head, creating something revelatory and inexplicably unsettling. Headf*ck doesn’t even begin to describe it…
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‘Palace of Marvels (Queered Pitch)’ follows 2007s ‘Altars of Science’ and continues veteran electronic experimenter Marcus Schmickler’s quest to explore the outer reaches of extreme computer music.
Apparently based on the ideas of the 1960s discovery of Roger Shepard’s ‘Shepard Tone’ – the auditary illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch but ultimately never gets higher or lower – this is synthesizer music for the more open minds out there. Like looking at an optical illusion, ‘Palace of Marvels’ cannot be experienced as a passive experience, you become instantly aware that the sound you are listening to is playing with your senses and making your mind work in ways it maybe hasn’t before.
I must say, the first time I played the record it made me feel almost queasy with the wavering tonal variations and quick arpeggiated sequences seemingly going everywhere and nowhere at once. This is a record that is almost impossible to describe as hearing it in high fidelity is the only way to experience the mind-unravelling effects Schmickler has intended us to feel. There is hardly a shortage of arpeggiated synthesizer music around at the moment with eMego’s Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never taking the centre stage on the ‘best of 2010’ lists, but Schmickler has taken these ideas and turned them on their head, creating something revelatory and inexplicably unsettling. Headf*ck doesn’t even begin to describe it…
‘Palace of Marvels (Queered Pitch)’ follows 2007s ‘Altars of Science’ and continues veteran electronic experimenter Marcus Schmickler’s quest to explore the outer reaches of extreme computer music.
Apparently based on the ideas of the 1960s discovery of Roger Shepard’s ‘Shepard Tone’ – the auditary illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch but ultimately never gets higher or lower – this is synthesizer music for the more open minds out there. Like looking at an optical illusion, ‘Palace of Marvels’ cannot be experienced as a passive experience, you become instantly aware that the sound you are listening to is playing with your senses and making your mind work in ways it maybe hasn’t before.
I must say, the first time I played the record it made me feel almost queasy with the wavering tonal variations and quick arpeggiated sequences seemingly going everywhere and nowhere at once. This is a record that is almost impossible to describe as hearing it in high fidelity is the only way to experience the mind-unravelling effects Schmickler has intended us to feel. There is hardly a shortage of arpeggiated synthesizer music around at the moment with eMego’s Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never taking the centre stage on the ‘best of 2010’ lists, but Schmickler has taken these ideas and turned them on their head, creating something revelatory and inexplicably unsettling. Headf*ck doesn’t even begin to describe it…
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‘Palace of Marvels (Queered Pitch)’ follows 2007s ‘Altars of Science’ and continues veteran electronic experimenter Marcus Schmickler’s quest to explore the outer reaches of extreme computer music.
Apparently based on the ideas of the 1960s discovery of Roger Shepard’s ‘Shepard Tone’ – the auditary illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch but ultimately never gets higher or lower – this is synthesizer music for the more open minds out there. Like looking at an optical illusion, ‘Palace of Marvels’ cannot be experienced as a passive experience, you become instantly aware that the sound you are listening to is playing with your senses and making your mind work in ways it maybe hasn’t before.
I must say, the first time I played the record it made me feel almost queasy with the wavering tonal variations and quick arpeggiated sequences seemingly going everywhere and nowhere at once. This is a record that is almost impossible to describe as hearing it in high fidelity is the only way to experience the mind-unravelling effects Schmickler has intended us to feel. There is hardly a shortage of arpeggiated synthesizer music around at the moment with eMego’s Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never taking the centre stage on the ‘best of 2010’ lists, but Schmickler has taken these ideas and turned them on their head, creating something revelatory and inexplicably unsettling. Headf*ck doesn’t even begin to describe it…