pict.soul
by Tetsu Inoue and Carl Stone.
cycling '74, San Fransisco, CA, 2001.
audio cd, price n/a.
c74-005.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen,
Hogeschool Gent,
Jan Delvinlaan 115,
9000 Gent, Belgium,
stefaan.vanryssen@pandora.be
Tetsu Inoue and Carl Stone have used Max/MSP, Csound, FS1R, Supercollider
and ProTools to generate, edit and mix 10 tracks of hardly describable
minor clicks, soft swishes, electronic chirps, white and coloured noises,
organised static and vast, deeply commited silences. The titles of their
'tracks' are accordingly telling:
%.disk
@.fine
!.tuning
#.transparency
^.error
&.restart
*.healthy
(.ram
?.digit
.bitÅ
This must be 'Ambientrance'.
Since neither the publisher nor the artists have deemed it necessary
to provide any extra information on the why and how of this record,
apart from three very fashionable and probably very deep haikai, I will
not try to elucidate the reader either.
A waste of time to listen to it, a waste of technology to have produced
it, a waste of money if you buy it. If this is what Zen Electronics
is supposed to be, I rather wish the authors retreated to the monastery,
where they certainly will find peace and inspiration.
One wonders what made Carl Stone, who is an otherwise very interesting
musician, do this.
Find more information at http://www.sukothai.com for Carl Stone and
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/tetsu/ for Tetsu.