"The trio's piece Danjon Scale is among the most striking displays of sustained texture in recent memory. The sound they create together is hypnotic and seamless." - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader.
"Class stuff, prime rib dark, rich drone music" - Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
"The thing broods... sits there and ruminates, slowly uncoiling and re-clenching, maybe getting a little pissed off. Though it gradually becomes massive, the payoff... is the final couple of minutes where the central drone dissipates and you're left with only the ashes and echoes, a wonderfully chilly sense of desolation."- Brian Olewnick, Bagatellen
"Awesome music which is both sharp-minded and unclassifiable. A 70-minute CD of stuff like this after such a taster is not “desirable” - it’s demanded." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
"Great music... Quite enjoyable." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
"Two brief but exceedingly dense works by this trio... wonderful stuff."- Brian Olewnick, Bagatellen
"Haptic contribute dark, strong work ("Velocimane"), structured in long waves of bowed metals and electronics that develops a fine, brooding feel"- Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
"Haptic's side of the 10" is even deeper and more palpable. Beats, each surrounded by a ripple of echo, loom like craters; electric buzzes seem to come at you from their far-off invisible edge and slam you against the wall... Meditate upon this stuff at your peril." - Bill Meyer, WIRE.
Creating densely textured works that can range from stark minimalism to
violent, carefully directed chaos, Haptic combines a rigorous attention
to sonic detail with restless experimentalism. Formed in Chicago in the
spring of 2005 by Steven Hess (Pan American, Dropp Ensemble, On,
Fessenden), Joseph Clayton Mills (Jonathan Chen, Dropp Ensemble), and
Adam Sonderberg (Dropp Ensemble, Civil War), Haptic was initially
conceived as a vehicle for live collaboration. To that end, the group
has frequently incorporated a different, rotating fourth member,
deliberately chosen to send the music in unpredictable and challenging
directions. Such collaborators have ranged from Tony Buck (The Necks)
and Olivia Block to Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED).
Individual members of the group have recorded for a multitude of labels, including Kranky,
Crouton, Longbox Recordings, Utech, Cathnor, Tonschacht, Entr’acte,
Absurd, Other Electricities, and BOXmedia, among others.
DISCOGRAPHY:
The Medium | LTD ED 12" / digital album (FSS-005, US) 2009
Repetition | C-47 (Bloodlust! B!122, US) 2009
Velocimane | Split 10" w/ Cristal (Entr'acte E60, UK) 2008
Correction | 7" (Entr'acte E47, UK / absurd 67, GR) 2007.
Danjon Scale | Split 12" w/ Mouths (Entr'acte E37, UK) 2006.
Indifference -> Building On Fire | v/a Two Million Tongues Festival. CD (Bastet 006, US) 2005.
Palacmusic release #5 feat. Tilman Ehrhorn (D), Rechenzentrum (D), El Fog (D/JP), Beneva vs. Clark Nova (NO), Ennio Mazzon (IT), Moze (JP), Jerome Pergolesi (FR), Talkingmakesnosense (UK), Sonicbrat (SG) and Palac (D). Available exclusively at Zero Inch.
"Reinterpretation turned to be extremely entertaining – as we can see, in the work were engaged the young as well as already eminent musicians. As the result they made Talking to Ghosts an original alloy of very viscous, deep ambient with soft and warm glitch." Pi Micron, Soundproector
Hi guys! I just got your 7" on Entr'acte/Absurd in my hands yesterday. Really serious stuff on both sides. Two short but too damn good! Great production also! Warmest wishes! Themis
Takayuki Iwamoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo have now demonstrated a simple haptic device that employs a number of ultrasonic transducers, which emit ultrasound.
Sound is a pressure wave, meaning that as the inaudible sound waves from each of the transducers interfere, they can create a focal point that is perceived as a solid object.
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