2006-11-30

Is accoustic feed the tribal sound of the 21st century?
About white and pink noise



we went down to the Flea Pit yesterday to the desonis event: Anrea Belfi, is great, if you have ever the chance to see him live playing a solo set, you should jump on the occasion.
Had Been Eliminated were a different matter at all. They arrived drunk, got more drunk, didnt get their kit organized, were - simply - annoying.
However, some of their stuff, has potential as well, I must admit, subject to discussion with my lovely girlfriend who believe it was an utter waste of time... maybe she has a point...

Now what kind of music is it, you wonder, well lets phrase it this way: it brought up the though in me whether acoustic feedback, structured and tamed white and pink noise, are today's (21st century) tribal sounds.
Think of musicians you might know, Aphex Twin or Square Pusher, you will find the same, its noise, and lots of feedback, think about caustic windows, not too unexpectedly you get to hear 1KHz pure sinus for some minutes, and still it has something to it, when slowly and unexpected structures and patterns emerge...
Possibly its a deeply embedded fractal cognition that makes those sounds and patters so easy to appreciate, and I believe even cro-magnons living 25000 years ago would have appreciated them as well. Or think about Kapsberger. You might not realize right away but what he does grooves in the same kind of way... listen to this.

Coming back to Andrea Belfi, he basically does what Eberhard Weber has done for a long time, creating sounds and themes, recording and sampling them live while playing to them, thus creating a multi layered sound scape, but whereas Weber does it in a traditional musical way, Andrea Belfi does it much more with sounds and rhythm only, much more subtle and minimalistic. It is music that lives just from being, rather than the Bach type of music that which finds its justification in development of and its internal logic.


ANDREA BELFI (IT)
www.hapna.com
Downloads - live is better :)

3/4 HAD BEEN ELIMINATED (IT) (Häpna, Bowindo)
www.hapna.com
www.shiftingposition.org

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