this is the voice of re:mote induction.Monday, August 18, 2003
alva noto/scanner - uniform
- for some reason when i originally read the blurb about this release i thought it would be longer. uniform is primarily a live recording of a collaboration between these two artists which took place in san francisco's modern art museum. the material saw some editing by carsten nicolai before release, which i had some read as being to provide extra material on top of the live material. but the reality is that uniform is one track, lasting about 25 minutes or so. the sleeve fits in with the other alva noto releases i have (prototype and transform, and possibly another one that is slipping my mind riggt now) - which is a two tone digi pack, with squares and shapes as cover design, in this case the colours are shades of green. the track has mostly the characteristic style of carsten's material, maintaining those trade marks which make alva noto - deep throbbing bass pulses mixing with clipped sine wave signals. entirely striking, listening to this in the car you get that whole body shaking sound effect. robin's scanner in put seems more understated than some of his material, adding more textural scrabbling of sound. this provides a certain contrast to carsten's purity, but also compliments the sound well. as the piece develops we get more of a scanner impression, voices filtering through to some degree. the scanner material i have heard to date has seemed decent, but alva noto impress every time, and uniform is definitely not an exception.
- for some reason when i originally read the blurb about this release i thought it would be longer. uniform is primarily a live recording of a collaboration between these two artists which took place in san francisco's modern art museum. the material saw some editing by carsten nicolai before release, which i had some read as being to provide extra material on top of the live material. but the reality is that uniform is one track, lasting about 25 minutes or so. the sleeve fits in with the other alva noto releases i have (prototype and transform, and possibly another one that is slipping my mind riggt now) - which is a two tone digi pack, with squares and shapes as cover design, in this case the colours are shades of green. the track has mostly the characteristic style of carsten's material, maintaining those trade marks which make alva noto - deep throbbing bass pulses mixing with clipped sine wave signals. entirely striking, listening to this in the car you get that whole body shaking sound effect. robin's scanner in put seems more understated than some of his material, adding more textural scrabbling of sound. this provides a certain contrast to carsten's purity, but also compliments the sound well. as the piece develops we get more of a scanner impression, voices filtering through to some degree. the scanner material i have heard to date has seemed decent, but alva noto impress every time, and uniform is definitely not an exception.
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