Aeriae is Sydney-based electronic composer/producer Wade Clarke. Aeriae's tracks pulse with all the addictive beat microscopy and spliced-atomic delights of avant-IDM artists such as Autechre and Retina.it, and wed these rhythms to conspicuous tonal beauty. Rich organ lines, crystal-like textures and treated White Girl voices wrap around tracks whose compass equally includes the song-like and the properly experimental.
Hold R1 is the debut album from Aeriae, eleven deep tracks of femtoscopic electro-funk, complex IDM beauty and addictive organ figures. The album's trajectory is one of openness, allowing it to incorporate into its Intelligent Dance Music trappings everything from the white girl gabber of Novelle Sis to the nursery rhyme catchiness of AMay, or the slow-building sonic disintegration of ten minute closer Rizdvo.
Fans of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Retina.it, Prefuse 73, The Black Dog or the UK's Warp label in general will appreciate where this music is going, as will any fan of genuinely innovative electronica.
ABOUT THE CD:
Hold R1 was mastered with tape-saturated goodness by Reece Tunbridge (Silverchair, The Grates, Sarah Blasko) at Benchmark Mastering in Sydney.
The album comes in the form of an enhanced CD including the videoclip for AMay, playable on your Mac or PC. This vibrant animation doesn't just look like it was made with eight-bit software - it was made with eight-bit software, namely Fantavision for the Apple II computer, over many months. The clip is a love letter to the aesthetics of early videogames and their futurist dreams.
Aeriae's music was first picked up in 2006 via Unearthed, the ongoing competition for unsigned artists run by Australia's National Youth Radio Station, JJJ. 'Karpa' from Hold R1 featured as a weekly staff pick in October 2006 and Areola was played on The Sound Lab in December.
Over at garageband.com, Aeriae scored the Track Of The Day slot eight times between 2006 and 2007 with beta versions of tracks from Hold R1. He also collected one of his favourite review grabs to date on the site when Caylin-Calandria was described as being 'like a Donkey Kong on crack running amok.'
Just a remind that the Sharpie Poetry Slam Competition deadline is approaching soon!
If you would like to perform at The Studio - Opera House with all the spoken word legends in Australia, send us a video with your best poem using cue cards, a la Bob Dylan.
For more info go to myspace.com/thenightwordsfestival
So hurry! Support the spoken word scene and be part of The Night Words Festival 2008!
yeah, I will be. Though my tracks terribly underworked as well. It was late at night and I had work the next day, so I sent in what I had. Haha, it was fun making it though. I think i'll polish it up eventually. 20th pops up on some inconvenient days :o Will be checking out your new track definitely. Cheers
haha, that's awesome. I heard your track "Lenticular" on the 20th cd, before I saw your profile. Cheers for adding me. Is nice to put a face to the name. Awesome sounds and arrangements you've got.
Some time ago, I commented about the LHC ( Large Haydron Collider) in Europe. The device they hope to recreate the moments of the BIG BANG with! Well, during recent preliminary trials a set of smaller magnets failed a pressure test, potentially delaying the Large Haydron Collidor's activation.
What is with the international science community's rush to recreate the conditions of the BIG BANG or even a miniature Black Hole?
This Unit is not 100% safe...so why take a chance with the fate of the Planet ?
Team Earth (all of us) needs to step up to these challenges and be compassionately Proactive!
Hope all is well with you Aeriae*
<><><><><><><><><><<><> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is a new particle accelerator that will collide beams of protons or lead nuclei at close to the speed of light. The collider is expected to create as many as 800 million particle collisions every second. And those collisions are expected to recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang began the rapid expansion and cooling of matter that scientists believe created the universe.
Do you know about this facility and the effect it could have on our lives?
People both inside and outside of the physics community have voiced concern that the LHC might trigger one of several theoretical disasters capable of destroying the Earth or even the entire Universe.
-Creation of a stable black hole
-Creation of strange matter that is more stable than ordinary matter
-Creation of magnetic monopoles that could catalyze proton decay
-Triggering a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum
Read more about what is currently happening on your planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
