Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly: Multiple Park LP (Gilgongo, 2023)
May 17, 2023 at 5:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | 1 Comment
Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly: Multiple Park LP
demonstrates how the natural world and technology respond to each other. Cheryl E. Leonard’s instruments use bones, shells, sticks, and other found materials, and Wobbly has extensively explored machine listening generated music on his Monitress releases. Most of these pieces were recorded live on Over the Edge, Negativland’s long-running radio show currently hosted by Wobbly. “Bowed Spine” seems to be constructed from the instruments on the album’s cover, with lots of extended scraping and bowing noises enhanced by far-out electronic treatments. “Icicle Tracking” is a lot easier on the ears, with dripping icicles and flowing water put through an electronic filter so that they seem like they could be generated by synths, but also clearly sound like their source material. “Ostrasidian” uses, rocks, shells, fish vertebrae, chopsticks, and marbles, beginning with a lot of thick, rolling motions and eventually lifting into surreal sound-spaces when the electronics kick in. “Multiple Park” is a half-real, half-imagined flock of birds and swarm of bees flying through a constantly morphing environment, sonically traveling through fields, forests, industrial landscapes, and high tides alike. Somehow a trace of a dub bassline echoes before the record draws to a close.
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