common business |
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pathogenic agent |
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come in |
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is there beauty in the threatening? with list senking introduces 40 minutes of the darkest matter and reckons: yes.
on list he varies and experiments with a - for raster-noton - frightening diversity of sounds. he reveals the pieces as sound-collages, as quotes, which seem to refer to splatter movie and film noir. following the tremendous plot of his endtime-sujet, he persistently welds together sound spaces in order to compress them later into overwhelming drone-sounds. these as such, then go to serve a fundamental purpose, as an environment for minimalistic themes and melodies, always to be driven by the ever present slow-beat of the pieces. nonetheless the syntax, the destiny of each single piece is highly varied and has the appearance of a much more mature composition, compared to his earlier works.
remarkably the technical aspect does not take a leading role in senkings anti-utopia visions. it's about substantial and age-old patterns, about impulses and the inevitable. comparable to a tracking shot, the sound masses are flowing grey and drama-laden towards their final purpose - seeming to follow the ductus of the opening piece - lets go.