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(UR_007) Headphone L - The Unconscious Spy's Snapshot Album

This is dreamtime music. Music from a place where familiar elements have slipped the chains of context and found their way over to things for which they have a more pre-conscious affinity. So while there’s really not an unfamiliar sound in this music, you’d be hard pressed to find a single one that’s among the company it normally keeps. “Besouros Dourados,” for example, features a gentle pizzicato string line--one of the most delicate, refined sounds in the Western musical tradition. Moving over this line is a whirring tone, which--to my ear, at least--calls to mind the Bullroarer, an instrument native to Australia (speaking of dreamtime), and made of a hollowed-out piece of wood tied to the end of a string, which, when whirled above the player’s head, produces a sound that’s said to resemble the voice of creation itself. Rounding out our odd little trio is a purely electronic melody that would be quite at home in a particularly charming video game. Now this is certainly a striking (audacious, even) musical combination. But when you call forth the connotations of each of these sounds--the masculine / feminine, ancient / modern, mystical / rational, all existing alongside the child-like and naïve--well, you don’t have to be Freud to understand that there’s more here than meets the ear...

(Review by Dave Keifer)


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in 1990, when i was 10, i started studying keyboards and had a computer and a midi program. i was always curious about making music with the midi language, but only started composing my own stuff in early 2003. i became addicted since then.