Album Review
Orcutt, Bill – “Neu Bros / OK Phone / Rural Beatles” – [Fake Estates]
atavist 3/20/2019 12-inch, A Library
Orcutt, known to KFJC for his experimental/free guitar work and, more recently, his collaborations with Chris Corsano, explores two new electronic compositions on this album. Research leads to, among other things, a Github repo, as the sounds were created using “a web audio library that uses method chaining and CSS-style selectors to simplify creating, configuring and connecting audio nodes in the browser.” Side A is comprised of contemplative tones; patterns repeat meditatively, shifting over time. The computer sounds generated by Orcutt’s Cracked app have an organ-like quality on this piece. Side B, in contrast, is frenetic, bubbling computer tones. Patterns persist, replicate, evolve, adapt while maintaining an over-arching, consistent identity. Imagine a visualization of an ant colony or a traffic pattern, how the pixels might jostle around on the screen, and then you associated sounds with those myriad pixels—Side B might be what you’d hear.
you heard it 23 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 32 days ago, Atavist played Side B
- 1147 days ago, Das va Zoltania played Side A
- 1152 days ago, Phil Phactor played Side A
- 1160 days ago, Avakhov played Side A
- 1167 days ago, Self Titled played Side B
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