Autistici

Volume Objects

REVIEW: VITAL WEEKLY (NL)

In Vital Weekly 550 we reviewed Blueprints a compilation by 12k, introducing a fine bunch of musicians, who all were supposed to have forthcoming releases on 12k. Several have been done already and here is Autistici from the UK. He has released before on Audiobulb, Hippocamp, Kikapu and Wandering Ear (the latter three are completely new to me). I described his pieces in Blueprints as "spacious ambient sounds", but nothing else, so probably I didn't noted it more than just that. For Volume Objects he creates music with objects, I think. These are hand held, touched, scraped, smashed and loved: I am not entirely sure. But it deems to me that the sounds are sampled and treated on the computer to create this warm, glitchy music. Nice stuff I think, but also quite normal. Too poppy to be serious musique concrete, because of the brevity of the pieces and the looped character of the sounds, and also in the areas of microsound this is hardly unheard stuff. Taken that not all the pieces could bother me that much, and the result is a pretty average release. Not good, and certainly not bad, but not one that easily remembers for its quality.

 

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