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from Ampersand Etcetera 2002_18 (11.18.2002) written by Jeremy Keens
http://ampersandetc.virtualave.net/ampersand.html & jeremy@pretentious.net
eM - Outward
The Foundry EP series - Fou.18
http://wwwfoundryite.com/EP
Michael Bentley dons the eM suit and takes us on another trip, an extension of All The Stars Burning Bright with some of his more constructed pieces, for the second in the ep series.
A rumbly clatter and then high tones, seeming to be voiced, take us 'From the earth'. A crackling with a deep whoo through, high tones and motor clicks settles down into a morse sustained segment. Sweeping high tones, clicks, birds and a deeper sound seem mysterious, pulsed and layered. The tones are subtly manipulated, given an slight edge. Electro-animal calls into rumbly loops with water, strange signals and an earth-quake depth; into mellifluous resonant tones with higher edges, shimmery signals as we leave and drift away.
And pass 'Across the milky way' on layers of signals. High piercing ones the most prominent but also deeper shimmering hollow and crackly ones. It becomes denser, suggestions of music in there. The whooshing becomes predominant with ditty scratches and billows behind all becoming quite loud and ringing through the skull before a fading, t'chings in the settling drift, and more suggestions of strings messages passing through the aether burbling fade.
Into a building storm 'Beyond the magellanic clouds' a metal resonance, softly swelling, shimmers and crackles of interference that grow and pan across the sky, low pulsing percussives, squiggles rhythmic, deep organ pulses are all gradually accreted, rumbling. To a tingling whooshing majesty that fades to a cloud of little noises, a final crackling message and a deep farewell.
A delightful addition to eM's oeuvre, the Foundry ep series and to the edgier side of stellar ambience.