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Review: Yann Novak - Presence

Presence started life as a sound performance at Torrance Art Museum in California back in June 2010, in which digitally enhanced cell phone recordings were combined in a manner designed to travel “smoothly through a number of emotional and physical states”. But just as with emotion itself, Presence never exists

Review: Talvihorros - Descent into Delta

True to its title, Descent into Delta feels as though it’s sinking into the earth. The waves of life and activity that flicker into life during “Gamma” – and flourish during the densely built “Beta” – feel attributable to the outside, anchored by thick hums of bass and distortion but stacked

Review: Offthesky - The Beautiful Nowhere

True to its title, The Beautiful Nowhere feels suspended above time and place. Melodies and textures meander through emptiness, nudged this way and that by soft electronic inflections and samples. Tracks close on abrupt fade-outs and anti-resolutions, providing brief snapshots of sonic states of limbo – purpose and significance feel forever