Name: Light Entropy - performance #2 by dwstrang
Duration: 13 min 22 s
Description: Performance with frozen light bulbs melting at Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth 2014. The performance was by David Strang + Sean Williams.

Taken from his debut EP 'Seven Hours' out September 30, 2013.
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Debut Album 'Whelm' out on May 12, 2014.
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Seven Hours

Lungful

Douglas Dare – Lungful

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"Atmospheric synths swell victoriously"

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Like many electronic artists, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles spent his early years experimenting with IDM, glitch and dance, but one consistent element in his musical journey has been his desire to create a more organic, humanised sound. Through these experimentations he has found a process of producing electronic music that feels close to this urge. Restricting himself to a small selection of analogue equipment, West engages his hands directly with instruments and is very selective about what he then records into the computer. He reduces musical parts even further, leaving enough space around the sound for it to breath.

‘Odyssey’ is a reflection of West’s quest to create atmosphere and space from minimal arrangements. ‘I don’t like music to sound overly laboured, so I restrict how much is going on. I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of reduction.’ The new 5-track EP was mastered by Naweed and is out on Erased Tapes.

'‘Odyssey’ and ‘Voyager’ are both incredibly stripped down and have a great sense of space throughout them. It's all about using the right ingredients at the right points in time. A lot of these ingredients are short recordings, such as ice cracking, mechanical clicks, clicks from synth errors, sounds of debris, guitar plucks etc., which interact with the simple arrangements and create little hints of rhythm. I also love the technique of swelling in music, but I realised that hardly anyone has done that in electronic music. So when I first got the synth to swell in and out with the opening chords of ‘Philip’, it was a great moment. Because it creates a human mood in a matter of seconds, which is very difficult to do with electronic sounds. That track is very important to me, and I think it will influence how I make music in the future.’ – Ryan Lee West

TRACK LISTING: A1. Odyssey A2. Philip. B1. Voyager B2. Rebecca B3. Soul (feat. Peter Broderick)

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Odyssey

Voyager

Rival Consoles – Voyager

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Quarter_(song)

61. Led Zeppelin "No Quarter" (1973)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_for_the_City

101. Stevie Wonder "Livin' For The City" (1973)

Performance with frozen light bulbs melting at Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth 2014. The performance was by David Strang + Sean Williams. 

Light Entropy - performance #2

ConversionLights

Small code/hardware experiment with self-starvation of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or microcontroller - the CPU slowly reduces its own power supply until the system becomes unstable (also feeding back on the instability of that control signal) and is rebooted once the CPU has ceased to run. What you hear is the reducing voltage (PWM) across successive reboots. 

CPU self starvation

After releasing Nils Frahm’s two-track solo synthesiser EP ‘Juno’ in a highly sought after 7” edition, Erased Tapes now re-release the original Juno tracks with guest reworks by Border Community's modular synth wizard Luke Abbott and Warp veteran Clark. Both known for their like-minded use of analogue synthesisers in their music, it makes them the perfect artists to rework the originals. Similar to Frahm’s online project ‘Screws Reworked’, where he invited fans to download his solo piano songs to reinterpret them with their own medium of choice, it’s far from being the typical remix EP. Aptly titled ‘Juno Reworked’, it will be released worldwide in the form of a limited 12" Vinyl and Download.

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Juno

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Taken from the album Wonderland, to be released on Modern Love December 2nd 2016. Limited 2LP version out now.

Light Entropy - performance #2

dwstrang

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