Reviews of 0/r [12k1006]

Imagine putting a stethoscope to the heart of digital technology and instead of finding cold inanimate circuits, discovering warmly buzzing currents of life.

This isn’t the cathartic masachismo of Merzbow or the power electronics set; Nosei Sakata’s and Richard Chartier’s pushings are achieved primarily upon the space of mentation – the tympanum, the cochlear curl, the tension and release of the cranial cavity

Some of the stuff really gets into the head, which can be pretty unnerving, but also very satisfying (yet another paradox!). This is microwave at its best.

its contents reward disciplined deep listening, which reveals a stereo-forest of amplified insectile noises: occasional blips and bleeps, flickering, electronic crackles, click rhythms and pulses, controlled blasts of fuzz, glassy explosions and warbling tones.