Laminar - Nozzle *

Artist:

Laminar

UPC:

753027201720

Description:

The press release for the third album by Fred Szymanski`s alter-ego Laminar, 2003`s Nozzle, contains the following description: "Nozzle`s starting point is the investigation of non-standard synthesis routines for creating music. As a whole, Nozzle is based on iterative functional synthesis and asynchronous granular synthesis, which involves developing musical structures by manipulating interactions at the sound-particle level." Got that? In plain English, this basically means that rather like his obvious hero, 20th century Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, Szymanski doesn`t compose music in the traditional sense so much as write complex mathematical formulas and programs, then assigns them musical values. The pieces on Nozzle are the result: amelodic electronic soundscapes of whirs, clicks, clanking, and static. Szymanski does a better than average job of varying sound and mood in these seven lengthy pieces in comparison to many of his contemporaries, and it`s an intriguing example of contemporary process music for those interested in such things, but listening to Nozzle, it`s hard to think of anything here that Xenakis hadn`t done a half-century previous. ~ Stewart Mason

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Repulsion
2. Trap
3. Shear
4. Burst
5. Boil
6. Nozzle
7. Surge

Album Information

Release Date:

09/23/2003

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Instrumental

Subgenre:

Experimental Rock

Label:

Asphodel

Catalog Number:

2017

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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