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PRICE:
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$22.53
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IN STOCK
ARTIST
MICROCORPS
TITLE
XMIT
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALTER
CATALOG #
ALT 064LP
ALT 064LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
5/28/2021
MICROCORPS
is the new project by artist and musician
Alex Tucker
(
Grumbling Fur
,
Alexander Tucker
,
Imbogodom
) exploring electronics, cello and voice. The debut release
XMIT
is an eight-track album featuring collaborations with
Gazelle Twin
,
Nik Void
,
Simon Fisher Turner
, and
Astrud Steehouder
. Tucker's ever-evolving sound world continues to unfold with this collection of harsh realms centered around processed electronic systems, strings, and vocal manipulations. On the new album, MICROCORPS employs altered voices, sound synthesis and atomized beat constructions. In a move away from previous projects
XMIT
investigates erasing the self, removing obvious traits of the hand and voice, and allowing a focus on the humanoid rather than the human. Instead of recognizable lyrics and coherent imagery, MICROCORPS evolved synthesized voices to generate alternate characters. He expands, "I was investigating how language brings our world into being and how manipulating the actual grain of the voice could open up momentary shifts in perception." Each track is born from a balance between composition and improvisation within set parameters. At each stage audio is heavily processed and then reconfigured. Setting up systems that are non-repeatable, where decisions can be premeditated and intuitive but never the same with each performance, using hardware and instruments outside of the computer to make live stereo takes that have limited room for editing and mixing. "I'd been looking into combining dream music with machine rhythms, but there are so many great examples out there of both music forms, so I started to cut up the drones and really filter the drum patterns to create a hybrid space." The album artwork features manipulated ink drawings by Tucker that originally featured in his recent comic
ENTITY REUNION 2
.
XMIT
refers to a time in which information both physical and nonphysical transfers at an alarming rate beyond human comprehension into an age which is at once banal and terrifyingly alien.
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