Claustrum - Live in 24.08.99
Copyright © 1999 Claustrum
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Repeated restructured human voice phrases boom in and out of full volume
like the tuning of a radio in a forgotten place, searching for a larger
civilization lost. Songs are built like object code; a motif is established
with a loop accumulating and zooming out of control in diode peak, and onto
it methods are grafted: mutation, reconfiguration, translation. After time
and change an equilibrium is reached and texture returns to its origin.
Baffling in its transformation and explicitly normal in the pace of its
change, poetically, it is a dark cinema of the absurd: in a house without
light the listener knows passage between rooms by the alteration in rhythm,
but within these rooms ghosts interplay with living reaction to the abrupt
reshaping of immediate surroundings. Like a succinctly unreal movie it
leaves the watcher with an uncertain outcome, strong impressions cycling
through memory as the awareness of this-moment-now lapses into lingering
feelings of the incomplete. In shadowed hallways of experience distant
radios are heard zeroing in on signals, recorded music and voices from
discontextualized distant lives echoing before being absorbed into voracious
silence. A sense of anomie lends strength to aesthetic, leaving listeners
between states of mind with no bridge to cross, and delights in sabotaging
that same sensation with too much place, formed of distinctive rhythm. Even
its melody contorts briefly and then fades out, another collapsed station
lost in the waves of time.
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