Delire @PlantSyntaxDiffusion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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to the 'accidental' bombing of the Chinese embassy by NATO where the blame was laid at the use of topographically outdated maps showing a space where the embassy shouldn't havebeen.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. ______________________________________________ Contributed to the Undesirable Propagation Unit by agent AlanBamford