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Guanxi >>> Pixel
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Guanxi is an
alias of DS1984 (디에스 천구백팔십사) from South Korea, and today Pixel, his
debut album of this newly acclaimed project, is presented exclusively
on top-40.org.
Almost all songs on Pixel are based on an
improvisation, then digitally cropped, spliced, diced and overdubbed.
Subsequently, they are combined to create some form of coherency -
reminiscent of mosaicism, an experimental and flotsam prism of
production, something of a transitional state of mind. Stimulated by
organic performances, which feature natural recordings taken and
manipulated to form an exploration of composition, Guanxi focuses on
the difference between natural and digital acoustics. Another point of
interest in his work is the investigation of the myriad of errors
arising from analog and digital systems. Common for all of Guanxi's
artistic endeavors is a fascination of working on the limits of
technologies when finding new material, pushing computers to the limit
to obtain an aesthetic that emphasizes the imperfections of modern
technology.
Pixel
leads you to a drifting, encompassing musical travel - you're carried
away with a lofty, almost spiritual grandeur of a spring morning hymns
and fabled sweetness of meditative ringing bells, dissolved in a
glitchy vibration. In contrast, you witness a swing of the cosmological
pendulum, a never-ending story of a subtle and hidden beauty of
environmental acoustic reiterations, charming and alerting at the same
time. The extreme tenseness of seemingly relaxing compositions, the
elastic bounciness of innermost subtle melodies makes the overall
impression so sleepy, tidy and sedative yet intense and arousing at the
same time - the unforgettable and so uncommonplace experience for an
overflowed ambient stream of our musical landscape today. Don't miss it!