On October 14th the Add Noise audio-visual festival took place in Moscow, and the performance was recorded and published by great russian netlabel Excentrica.
Excentrica emerges as one of the finest netlabels in the sound art / electro acoustic spectrum and this publication just proves so.
The album starts with a 37 + min. piece by Laptop Orchestra lead by Andrei Smirnov, a major figure in the development of electro acoustic music in Russia: Andrei founded the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music and Multimediaon 1992. Among his most interesting projects, on 1982-1987 he worked at the Psychology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, developing the brain wave biofeedback system and the special computer-controlled sound synthesizer to produce the brain wave biofeedback sonic environment for the purpose of the human self-regulation.
Laptop Orchestra is one of the most intense and fascinating performances of electro acoustic music that I remember. A collage of sounds creating a narrative piece, where each moment makes sense on its own and as part of a wider story, where textures and spaces establish a dialogue between fast-moving objects, blazing textures and strange claustrophobic places.
CD-R by CD-R (Nikita Golyshev) is the second piece and fourth track. CD-R have been very prolific publishing 11 works during the past 2 years, and participating in several compilations as well. His performance on Add Noise was very intriguing, leaving a lot of room for silence; CD-R is a rather suggestive piece, where sounds are subtle and the story lies beneath what's audible. Textures are undefined and spaces are undetermined, it's just our perception traveling through sheer blurred memories.
Alexei Borisov selftitled piece is the third piece of the record, and the one setting the darkest and eeriest tone. Sharp and devastating, Alexei Borisov piece is a burst of unimaginable strong and destructive forces clashing in a chaotic data collision.
The last piece of this record is a jam of Alexei Borisov, CD-R and Laptop Orchestra that starts a very subtle and drifting piece that later turns into a chaotic dark climax that fades out quietly.
Add Noise at Moscow State Museum of Architecture is a release that I am really glad I got to hear (just like the entire Excentrica catalogue) , indeed one of the best releases I ever had the pleasure to review and one record everyone into sound art and electro acoustic music will appreciate.
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