#sine waves

[genderfluid-focus]

genderfluid sine waves *v*

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Iris, 20181110

[dustedmagazine]

Lucio Capece/Marc Baron— My Trust in You (Erstwhile)

My Trust In You by Lucio Capece/Marc Baron

The collective results of this collaboration between Lucio Capece and Marc Baron seem inevitable. While Capece and Baron both came to initial attention as reed players, their respective practices have increasingly focused on the resonances and spatial dispersion of sound. Capece has incorporated the use of feedback, sine waves, oscillators and distributed and suspended speakers into his music while Baron has mostly eschewed the use of saxophone altogether, instead extracting his music from field recordings and the distressed and decayed sound of analog tape and analog electronic devices. The cover of My Trust in You lists the core elements of this recording with Capece on bass clarinet, slide saxophone, analog synthesizer and filter, drum machines, double looper, equalizers in feedback, regular and telephone field recordings, mini speakers in movement and Baron on field recordings, tape recorders and other analog devices. While those may be the components the two utilize, it gives little hint as to the absorbing results.

The crackles and field recording snippet that opens “Believe in Brutus” lulls the listener for a moment before breaking off into slowed and distorted tapes, dusky bass and shredded radio grabs. The piece lists and jolts from there with stark jump cuts between recorded bird sounds, crunching sputters and wafts of brooding melody, ending with a hard cut to silence. Over the course of the next six pieces, Baron and Capece dive deep into the strategies laid out on the opener. Quavering bells, faltering mechanical sounds, clicks and brittle snaps, the sound of clattering cymbals get panned across the stereo field. The two use the stark breaks between pieces as a framing mechanism, serving to divide the recording into sonic chapters.  

The two revel in confounding expectations, setting up stuttering rhythms which get toyed with, hinting at pulse and momentum and then ripped apart. “Self-centered interpretation of” utilizes a dusky, melodic line that gets layered and colored with undercurrents of abraded rumble. “Kneel for your psychoacoustic rights,” weaves together low-end drone, static and distorted recordings and keening whines into a slow seething sonic mix shot through with constantly shifting detail. Here again, the two adroitly utilize the stereo field to immerse the listener then slams in to the next cut, “Snowblind,” an engulfing, looped and layered maelstrom of hiss and static that continues to build density and intensity over the course of seven minutes until it breaks into distorted tape swirl. There’s no telling if this collaboration was a one-shot or if it will lead to an ongoing affair, but like each release by Capece and Baron, it is an enthralling listen that reveals new facets of their musical visions.  

Michael Rosenstein

[viridescences]

Physical Music 94 - sine waves and interference from projected shadows.

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Sachiko M

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Sine Waves in Cyan on Magenta . 20181030

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Wavelets, 20181217.1

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🌈Wavelets, 20181219.1