The trivial or common examined minutely becomes surreal and unexpected. That seems to be the premise of the composer in the electro-acoustic genre.
Sonic Circuits VII
includes selections from
the International Festival of Electroacoustic Music
.
Jose Halac
's
"The Breaking of the Scream"
is a looped and multi-tracked microscopic analysis of the high-pitched mountain
Argentinean folk
song.
Halac
calls this scream therapy "the ultimate homage to divorce." In
Thomas Gerwin
"Rollenspiel"
he invites us as miniature observers to follow the path of a roulette wheel ball. The nine sonic alchemists here brew up bizarre and unique fantasies, finding that studio doors can lead to other worlds. ~ Tom Schulte