Chartier's 'Recurrence.Expansion' offers a sharp contrast, opening with a gaseous drone that channels the energy of Thomas Köner's earliest, most vital gear. It's sub bass that grounds this one, rumbling through the composition - which was originally written for 26 speakers - providing focus and weight to Chartier's pacific sibilances. Serene feedback tones offer an air of mystery, but it's the tiniest sounds that keep us coming back. Anyone who's heard Chartier's run of classic Line albums like 'Of Surfaces' and 'Two Locations' will know how effortlessly he's able to enhance the detail of microscopic high-pitched scrapes and crackles, and it's these elements that sprinkle psychoacoustic dust over his deliberately austere sustained tones.
The use of abstraction and meticulous sound design drags us outside the real, and into the sublime.
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Chartier's 'Recurrence.Expansion' offers a sharp contrast, opening with a gaseous drone that channels the energy of Thomas Köner's earliest, most vital gear. It's sub bass that grounds this one, rumbling through the composition - which was originally written for 26 speakers - providing focus and weight to Chartier's pacific sibilances. Serene feedback tones offer an air of mystery, but it's the tiniest sounds that keep us coming back. Anyone who's heard Chartier's run of classic Line albums like 'Of Surfaces' and 'Two Locations' will know how effortlessly he's able to enhance the detail of microscopic high-pitched scrapes and crackles, and it's these elements that sprinkle psychoacoustic dust over his deliberately austere sustained tones.
The use of abstraction and meticulous sound design drags us outside the real, and into the sublime.
Chartier's 'Recurrence.Expansion' offers a sharp contrast, opening with a gaseous drone that channels the energy of Thomas Köner's earliest, most vital gear. It's sub bass that grounds this one, rumbling through the composition - which was originally written for 26 speakers - providing focus and weight to Chartier's pacific sibilances. Serene feedback tones offer an air of mystery, but it's the tiniest sounds that keep us coming back. Anyone who's heard Chartier's run of classic Line albums like 'Of Surfaces' and 'Two Locations' will know how effortlessly he's able to enhance the detail of microscopic high-pitched scrapes and crackles, and it's these elements that sprinkle psychoacoustic dust over his deliberately austere sustained tones.
The use of abstraction and meticulous sound design drags us outside the real, and into the sublime.
Chartier's 'Recurrence.Expansion' offers a sharp contrast, opening with a gaseous drone that channels the energy of Thomas Köner's earliest, most vital gear. It's sub bass that grounds this one, rumbling through the composition - which was originally written for 26 speakers - providing focus and weight to Chartier's pacific sibilances. Serene feedback tones offer an air of mystery, but it's the tiniest sounds that keep us coming back. Anyone who's heard Chartier's run of classic Line albums like 'Of Surfaces' and 'Two Locations' will know how effortlessly he's able to enhance the detail of microscopic high-pitched scrapes and crackles, and it's these elements that sprinkle psychoacoustic dust over his deliberately austere sustained tones.
The use of abstraction and meticulous sound design drags us outside the real, and into the sublime.