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Zbigniew Karkowski & Antimatter - kHz
Title : kHz
Artist : Zbigniew Karkowski & Antimatter
Genre : Noise
Year : 2005
BCC Rel Date : May-21-2005
Audio Bitrate : VBR kbps / Joint-Stereo
Sample Rate : 44,1 kHz Stereo
Encoder : Lame
Tracks : 01
Label : aus021
Ripped By : BCC Team
Source : CDDA
Length : 44:58 min
Size : 61,7 MB
01.khz [44:58]
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44:58 min
Antimatter is California's Xopher Davidson
and this 45 minute piece, released by San
Francisco's Auscultare Research is
Davidson's second collaboration with
Swedish/Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski.
On their previous CD ("Function Generator" on
Portugal's Sirr label) they set themselves a
limit of 100 Hz frequencies for a very
clinical work full of super-low bass
vibrations. This time the title "KHZ" leads
you to believe they've expanded the frequency
range quite a bit. The opening minutes
feature a slow pulsing bass tone loop EQ'ed
down mercilessly. The sound is clean, thick
and heavy, with just a slight suggestion of a
trebly scratch around the edges. The pristine
sounds of undistorted bass tones can be a bit
difficult on the ears but this bass noise is
pleasurable. The bass gets into your head in
a way that can only be described as a
physical effect more than an auditory
sensation, as real or imagined additional
tones ring through your head endlessly. A
rhythmic beating builds up as the suffocating
tones seem to multiply. Drawn-out purring
drones flow through the mix, as do a few
higher pitched morse-code bleeps but the bass
dominates the first ten minutes before the
frequency range opens up. Midrange sonorities
appear suddenly around the 13 minute mark- I
jumped at their intrusion, actually.
Click-loops emerge, bass levels are brought
down and the piece reaches a high-end
chirping peak around the 27 minute mark. The
click-loops bring to mind Ryoji Ikeda or
Carsten Nicolai, or the more desolate moments
of Pansonic but the feel here is a bit more
intense- and you never lose the sense that
something really dangerous is about to
assault your ears at any moment. But the
austere feel remains throughout- and the
piece slowly winds down over the course of a
slow-moving 45 minutes. There are no liner
notes on this release- except for a cryptic
quote: "rebounding = junk of live" credited
to R. Selavy (Duchamp's readymade alter-ego)
though the connection between this music and
the quote is not easily found- no surprise
there I suppose. The CD is graced by
beautifully understated graphic design (by
Randy Yau, presumably), with the letters KHZ
cut into the black cardstock cover so that
the silver CD disc surface peeks through.
Even the barcode is tastefully inserted along
the spine, the silver and black lines
becoming the most active graphic piece in a
delicate composition.
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