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Artist......: Matt Evans
Album.......: New Topographics
Label.......: Whatever's Clever
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: WC012
Source......: CDR
Rip.date....: 2020-12-18
Str.date....: 2020-04-17
Quality.....: 670 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://thisismattevans.com
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1. Full Squid 4:45
2. An Infinite Cybernetic Meadow 4:04
3. Spinning Blossoms 3:07
4. Cold Moon 4:55
5. On Dracaena 1:46
6. Data Fog 3:13
7. Ongongos 2:59
8. Jaich Maa 4:02
9. New Moon 4:56
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,: New Topographics is an aqueous collection of drum driven, :,
: ambient adjacent, hypnotic soundscapes that radiate from a :
:' liminal zone between the physical and the digital. Following an ':
,: impulse toward percussive abstraction, Matt Evans (Tigue, :,
: Bearthoven, Man Forever) collages the sounds of writing, typing, :
:' morse code and othersù swirling sonic byproducts from our ':
,: communication systemsù with percussive improvisations and :,
: synthesized ôcreaturesö to trace imagined landscapes in a sea of :
:' noise. Synthetics and acoustics cross currents, unifying ':
,: rubbery harmonies, wandering melodies, and incidental noises :,
: into a dreamy cybernetic ecology. :
:' ':
,: New Topographics was written and recorded in December 2018 :,
: during a month long artist residency program at Brooklyn art :
:' space, Pioneer Works. The tracks are a product of a 4 week deep ':
,: dive into possible musical representations of the feeling and :,
: experience of ôhyperobjectsöù defined by Timothy Morton as :
:' ôobjects that are so massively distributed in time and space as ':
,: to transcend spatiotemporal specificity, such as global warming, :,
: styrofoam, and the internet.ö Matt found the absurd and :
:' transcendent feeling of this complex thought paralleled in a ':
,: short poem by Richard Brautigan ôAll watched over by machines of :,
: loving grace,ö a vaguely earnest/ironic and imaginative :
:' description of a cybernetic utopian future (see also the Adam ':
,: Curtis mini series of the same name). Matt experimented with :,
: recording the sound of writing the poem by hand, re-imagining it :
:' as a musical language, later recording and layering other ':
,: ambient and percussive tracks in response. This became the :,
: guiding process for nearly every track on the album; translating :
:' and sonifying the Brautigan text into foreign communication ':
,: systems so as to re-interact with the text as a musical voice. :,
: Sound transcriptions include a braille translation performed as :
:' a graphic score ("Full Squid"), a translation to morse code ':
,: frequencies ("An Infinite Cybernetic Meadow"), a recording of :,
: typing the text on a qwerty keyboard ("Spinning Blossoms"), and :
:' translating the text into radioteletype frequencies ("Data ':
,: Fog", "Ongongos"). This sonic residue is redefined as a musical :,
: subject and takes on an extramusical quality, transcending itÆs :
:' residual nature, and gaining empathetic value. With these ':
,: finely tuned tracks, Matt offers a meditation on our current :,
: condition and a gateway toward a refined perspective on what we :
:' leave behind in our present age. ':
,: :,
: ôFor me, thereÆs a link between these sonic byproducts and human :
:' empathyù a gateway towards a greater conversation on what it ':
,: means to live the paradox of complicitnessù a guide to :,
: re-focusing how we understand the consequences of our actions by :
:' way of sound. The first step toward any significant change in ':
,: our behaviour is becoming aware of the object like significance :,
: of our actions. Making this record has been a way of tuning my :
:' ears to this phenomenon. To learn the language of these ':
,: object-like byproducts so as to speak the language my own way :,
: and further empathize with that which I was not previously :
:' informed. Being aware, being sensitive to that awareness, and ':
,: reflecting that experience outwards. This is how we can make a :,
: shift in how we see ourselves in the world. Making this music :
:' was a way to practice understanding what I leave behind. We put ':
,: up walls to function, but if we make a habit of taking them down :,
: and really looking and listening to whatÆs happening around us, :
:' we will have greater empathy for the people and beings we share ':
,: space with. Our ability to empathize with the earth itself will :,
: grow.ö :
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