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v01 (ds​-​singularity)

by John Wall

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John Wall computer.
editing / composing / manipulation of “original” and sampled sound material.

Paul Richardson Mastering


This is the sound of hurtling towards—and orbiting—a zero-point. We are far from the sanitized, utopian notion of a perfect musical blueprint transferred from mind to music. Instead, what we hear in “v01(ds-Singularity)” is the abraded materialization of a density of decisions, responses: the clatter of an originating kernel repeatedly circulated between the recorder, computer, and the ear, with the friction of that exchange bending and forging that seed into a knotted web of versions, variations, all folded and hammered into the final iteration. 

Friction is the key. The dizzy, see-sawing rhythmic motion underpinning the piece stutters like rubber dragged over glass: there is an emphasis on repetition, but each individual iteration threatens to suddenly dive-bomb into uncharted territory, making the listening experience a vortical one that draws us in through the arrangement of, and relations between, the materials themselves. Each discrete gesture seems to be fighting the most insurmountable odds; and these stakes are felt in the triumphant release—exhalation—of the piece’s most exuberant passages. In this very particular way, “ v01(ds-Singularity)” is a document—a history—of struggle.

Review by Sunk Kim
noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/raid-on-the-white-tiger-regiment

Thanks to
Michael Speers
for two suggested edits which “tightened” the work perfectly to its present form.
michaelspeers.bandcamp.com


Sampled and manipulated sound fragments
Lee Fraser
Mr Bill
Playboi Carti
John Wall
Unidentified .

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released February 10, 2023

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