a r t i s t : cem gueney
t i t l e : praxis
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : cronica
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2010
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 71,6 MB
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Cem Guney is a Turkish-born sound artist who came into the
microsound genre via a background in DJing and trumpet
playing. I'd like to think Guney performed those activities
simultaneously, but those sorts of one-man-band strategies
tend not to go down especially well in the more serious
corners of the electroacoustic universe - and Portugese label
Cronica must surely be branded as such: some of the very
finest musicians within contemporary digital acousmatics
gravitate towards the label, but Guney doesn't disappoint.
These compositions draw on both synthetic and recorded sound
as source material (as tends to be the case with this genre)
but Guney focuses more on the processes and side effects of
these methods of composition, fabricating pieces of music out
of pieces of echo or fragments of crackle on 'Factitious
Phobia' and 'Impulse'. Elsewhere Guney is content to step into
the domain of an influential contemporary, 'Undulations
(dedicated to Janek Scaefer)' using samples and looped ambient
structures in a fashion not dissimilar from certain works by
the artist referenced in the title. While Praxis could hardly
be accused of gping out of its way to expand the vocabulary of
modern electroacoustics, you'd certainly have a job levelling
any other complaint at this engrossing body of work.
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01-a phonetics theme [04:19]
02-impulse [07:14]
03-undulations (dedicated to janek schaefer) [10:46]
04-visceral (in a fugitive sense) [05:10]
05-factitious phobia [07:56]
06-adaptations [08:15]
07-praxis [05:53]
08-behold now bhikkus, the sounds of nada yoga [05:03]
09-somewhere between the middle [09:49]
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