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Lightbox Sky

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VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW

Coming up in a few days is the first anniversary of the passing of Mika Vainio, one half of Pan Sonic, who also had a solo career in noise and rhythm, as ø and under his own name. Sasha Margolis of Automating did this piece “especially for a long-term supporter of Automating. All live, no overdubs, with a setup inspired by Mika Vainio and his use of feedback loops”. I saw Vainio a couple of times perform and never thought of his setup as feedback loops, but who knows and maybe it was.

Automating’s music before dealt with a lot of field recordings (see for instance Vital Weekly 1117), but here in this twenty-one minute work goes all electronic, using quite a bit of effects on top of those feedback loops and cooks up a sound that is very dense and quite dark. Yet it never seems to reach for the sonic disturbance Vainio was known for, or a similar use of dynamics, ranging from very quiet to super loud. In Automating’s homage to the setup he seems less interested in doing something similar as Vainio but rather a more ambient exploration of these sounds in a long cascading deep rumble of forceful electronic sounds. So while not alike Vainio that much, Automating stays closer to his own earliest work I know, and presents a beautiful beast of a piece that for all I know could have been a bit longer than twenty-one minutes. If anything else, think Arcane Device in a more ambient mode (‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ or ‘Envoi In Cumin’ for instance), as a possible other source of inspiration. (FdW)
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released March 1, 2018

Mastered by James A. Dean at Electric Sounds

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Automating Melbourne, Australia

Automating is Sasha from Melbourne, Australia. Sifting through the sonic waste and discarded technology left by the roadside of a world speeding too fast into the future. Field recordings, found sound, tape manipulation, noise and effects units. Currently pursuing live and studio created binaural soundscapes and archaic tape based drones. ... more

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