Reviews of Occur [12k1013]

Tiny sounds become an all-encompassing Soundworld.

Fragile audio enigmas.

Amazingly constructed.

The best moments here seem alive, in the same way that a blood vessel is alive or the a knife scraping a plate is alive.

the nine tracks on Occur all find points in your memory cache to tickle with prickly pops and muddy bass wobbles.

What strikes me most about this work is its incredible dynamic range; from side to side to side, up and across, narrow and wide, these sounds occupy a generous virtual space.

Like his peers Ryoji Ikeda, Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier, and Carsten Nicolai, Deupree is very much a sound scientist, measuring by the width of a hair each sound, its resonances and consequences.

Listen carefully and you can hear the sound of an aesthetic programme dissimulating itself.

Subtle, gentle and harsh when needed.

Delicate and seemingly fractured.