Delire @PlantSyntaxDiffusion
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Topographical Amnesia.
circum events (pix,yl)

A piece inspired perhaps, certainly connected to the 
'accidental' bombing of the Chinese embassy by NATO where 
the blame was laid at the use of topographically outdated 
maps showing a space where the embassy shouldn't 
havebeen.
You'd never have got this from the music, but that doesnt 
matter I suppose.

Quotes from Virillio and Natassja Kinski further inform the 
reader about the piece in typically obscure fashion. In other 
words they don't inform at all.

This piece really irritated me. It was FAR too long. But that 
wasn't the problem really. For me there were several good 
pieces lost in the morass of samples endlessly dripping out 
of the desk.... short passages of considerable focus and 
distinct character lost in a drifting directionless river of 
sound that in the end was rendered disfunctional and 
meaningless. It was the lost potential of so much of the 
material that  was got my goat.

There were sections where a limited pallette of sound was 
used to great effect where sounds coincidntally provided 
contrast and complementarity. The music had many 
moments of considerable momentum and dynamism with the 
odd staccatto burst to further propell proceedings while 
avoiding any metronomic underpinnings and was effectively 
mixed and created in real time.

But all these good moments were lost as the focus shifted to 
the next lot of sounds with, to me, no apparant connection 
beyond their location in the computer. Very frustrating, but 
as well I must concede, very promising.May I patronisingly 
recommend a listen to  Init Ding by Microstoria for an object 
lesson in the construction of short abstract electronic music.

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Contributed to the Undesirable Propagation Unit by agent AlanBamford