Sleeparchive / Regis & Scorn / AM-PM

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 27 Feb, 2009.

My special surprise this week got me excited when I clocked it. It's a limited edition CD called 'We Can Elude Control' with three pieces that were commissioned for some audio visual installations. The artists involved Mick Harris (Scorn/ Lull etc), Karl O'Connor (Regis/ British Murder Boys), Roger Semsroth (Sleeparchive/ Skanfrom) and Radovan Scasasia (AM/PM / Secondo) are not normally associated with these types of projects so I was extra keen to hear what they'd created. Mick Harris and Karl O' connor turn in a brooding piece of digital synthesis with unnerving tones and lots of static sound that increases. It stands alone as in interesting listen out of the gallery/ visual context. I like this one a lot. Next up is Mister Scasasia whose droney track couldn't be further from the Secondo stuff. Some really strange sounds appear that both delight and confuse. Then Roger Semsroth's sounds are a welcome treat with big rumbling noise and digital bloops. All very electronicy computer noise/ interference type stuff. As much as I like this as with a lot of this type of stuff you cant help but feel you're only getting half the experience with the visuals missing. Ltd to 400 copies in black plastic sealed bag with 3 oversize postcards.

SLEEPARCHIVE / REGIS & SCORN / AM-PM We Can Elude Control

LIMITED EDITION CD HOUSED IN A SEALED BLACK PACK - ONLY 400 COPIES FOR THE WORLD

*Limited edition CD housed in a sealed black pack and including 3 postcard prints to go alongside each of the pieces featured*
We Can Elude Control is a series of thirty minute audio-visual commissions developed to create collaborative gallery performances between established electronic musicians working in partnership with visual artists and designers.
This CD and accompanying postcard set communicate excerpts from these three commissioned projects. Namely a 3D audio-visual show by Karl O'Connor (Regis/BMB) and Mick Harris (Scorn) in partnership with Joanie Lemercier. A sonic landscape survey produced by Radovan Scasasia (AM/PM / Secondo), and live programming by Laurent Benner and Tommi Eberwein. Then finally a hypnotic lighting installation designed by Karl Kliem and soundtracked by Roger Semsroth aka Sleeparchive.
These completed works were previewed in their entirety at Spike Island, Bristol, and Sassoon Gallery, London, during March 2008. The O'Connor and Harris track is an 11 minute exercise in detailed digital synthesis, sounding far removed from their usual rhythmic explorations, and also removed from it's visual counterpart - a shock for followers of their work but if you're into Hecker or Rehberg this will be right up your strasse. Radovan Scasasia, rolls out a 14 minute composition - far removed fromhis work as Secondo, much closer to the "Ends" projecy under his AM/PM guise.. The contribution from Roger Semsroth aka Sleeparchive is the most uncompromising - across 10 minutes the master of clinical minimalism offers coolly developing hi-end tones, bursts of low end pulse and white noise to create an overwhelming dark atmosphere, leaving ample space for the "hypnotic lighting installation".
Get in on this while copies last. Limited to 400 copies for the world

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