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Released
Not Released

Label
Independent One Off

Reviewed by
Alexander

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Accidental Motion'

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Egosplint



Last Edit/Update
21 December, 2000

Accidental Motion VS Egosplint
Live on 4/1/00

White Block

Track Listing

1. Accidental Motion
2. Egosplint vs Accidental Motion
3. Egosplint



    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.


Who is that boy?

 



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