Egosplint is Jay Eychaner, while Accidental Motion is Stavros Glitsos,
both composers are located in the USA. Their form of expression for this live unreleased
material is in the area of noise. The first track begins with a long pulse of drone that
vibrates my woofers to having to turn the volume down and tends to be rather soothing.
Accidental Motion inserts a layer of swirling circular buzzing pulses onto the drone that
tends to change in timbre weaving its way in and out of the drone. It makes me feel as if
I am caught in a vortex, an aural wave that just keeps coming at me, slightly intensifying
with each approach. There are a few insertions of synth fx, a low beat in the background
as if someone was turning off a valve and the machine just thumped to a stop. AM also uses
"industrial" sounds that resemble clinks and clanks, hydraulics gone awry. There
is rhyme to this track, and a pattern of beats I can discern, I can certainly follow this
track with no difficulty. One reason I am not a huge fan of noise, noise that can't be
followed is that I can't follow it [maybe that's the point of noise noise music?] ! Not
that I like music which is 100% predictable, but I do like to be able to have an active
part in listening, and I have that with Accidental Motion. This track has a clear
evolution to it, starting out with minimal sounds and moves into a beat enhanced noise
composition. Very nice, industrial noise in the very sense of the term. Classic.
The next track is Egosplint remixing Accidental Motion. This track
seems to be overall less structured than the previous but does lend itself to a relatively
constant surge of various effects and knob twisting. There are effects in this track but I
couldn't pick out a real pattern for any of them overall, however some of them did fit
themselves into brief momentary clusters. This track is a bit more harsh than the former
and uses a variety of different sounds. There are some relatively high pitches that would
be down right abusive if heard loud or live in concert at high volume. *grin* It's
definitely less relaxing, a bit more irritating to listen to, and would probably tend to
piss me off if I had to hear it repeatedly.
On the other hand, the last track by Egosplint brings to mind a
primordial forest on a mechanized planet and a microphone just above water level in the
pond. There are crazy synthetic cracks and zips, a sort of introduction to FX 101, then
the track moves into a more circular sonic hole of rather high pitched notes if you will
vibrating at a relatively high frequency on top of the buzzing in the background that
tends to change in pitch and harmony from time to time. This track is rather pleasant, but
again I don't think I could take it loud and on repeat.
Overall this work is interesting, unusual and I probably wouldn't want
to hear it live at a high volume. For background music it's ok. Not recommended for young
children as it might tend to piss them off. However if you have an infant in the home,
with enough bass it might put him/her to sleep as it could be hypnotic at the right levels
of volume.

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