Forces // Chimæras TAPE

フィンランドの実験音楽家Forcesが、2023年8月にスロバキアの実験／オールジャンルレーベルMappaからリリースしたカセットです。

スウェーデン・ストックホルムのEMSで録音した変態コラージュ・ノイズ〜8ビット・アンビエント曲を収録。DLコード付属。 

以下、作家本人による解説です。

"EMSはBuchlaやSergeといったモジュールが有名だが、エボリューション・シンセシスのEVS-1という超未知のデジタルラック・シンセモジュールが入っていた。忘れ去られた90年代の箱やサンプリングされたモジュラージャムから、本当に異質なサウンドが生み出された。その結果、ミスマッチな回路とデジタル・コードによる不規則なトリップが生まれ、感情的な作為と厳しく論理的な音楽の間をすり抜ける。"

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Includes DL code. 

Tracklist:

1. Perspecta 04:15
2. Rheinmetall 03:34
3. Kotobuki 02:44
4. Oshkosh 03:30
5. Pegasus 03:05
6. Manticore 04:28
7. Anzu 02:09
8. Leidos 02:49
9. Sargon 04:00
10. Lilith 03:04

Mappa:

"Named after the mythological hybrid of the chimaera, Forces’ first collection for mappa was put together in a similar fashion. The sounds all stem from a fruitful residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion in May & June 2022, leading to a bounty of source material with which to build. The sounds and concept are equally chimeric, stringing together disparate and unintuitive jams, the music mimicking the multi-limbed, sewn together beasts of both creative open source coding and destructive multinational concerns who hide their cores amid endless appendages. Like Doctor Moreau, Forces - aka Finnish artist Joonas Siren - weaves wildly varying attributes into something new, from short-circuiting 8-bit dream ambience to fractured digital groans, drones, and noisy freakouts.

Though EMS is best known for its Buchla and Serge modular systems, Forces went ‘digital’ and largely navigated a lesser-known synth rack one can wheel between studios, affectionately known as the ‘90s Wagon’. “It housed different digital rack synth modules,” explains Siren, “ like the super unknown EVS-1 by Evolution Synthesis, a UK company who only produced this one rack synth only and then vanished.” Some truly alien sounds emerge from Forces’ creative misuse of forgotten 90s boxes and sampled modular jams. The result is an erratic trip through mismatched circuitry and digital codes, slipping between emotional artifice and harshly logical music.

The track titles stem from both famous mythological chimaeras and multinational arms dealing conglomerates. “Different quite sinister firms can operate in broad daylight, easily hiding their true nature. Many of these mega-corporations have different branches (like chimeric limbs) that are producing quite normal mundane every-day items, as well as mass-producing weapons.” A dedicated SuperCollider user too however, Siren states how open source coding snippets are also ‘chimeric beings’. “You end up always using some part of some old code and then building completely new work on some old idea,” Siren explains. Despite its misuses, there’s also something hopeful in the malleability of ideas, and the ability to creatively collage the world as it is into something wholly new, even better."

Complete gear list:
SuperCollider
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1
Yamaha TX81Z
Nord G2 Modular
Nord Wave
GRM Plugins
OddVoices website
Omnisphere VST
Vital VST
Diva VST
Waldorf Microwave XT
Serge Modular
Buchla 200 System
Buchla 100 clone 

Artist : Forces

Label : Mappa