20010505

13 track ep

Available at cipher, o-o institutio media http://www.o-o.lt/cipher

"When we listen to electronic music we can sometimes identify the
software that was used to create it - we 'hear' the original
programmer's code" - HACKING SOUND IN CONTEXT, Alex McLean

20010505, 13 track electroacoustic ep from the group Slub, comprised of
two digital artists Alex McLean and Adrian Ward. Alex McLean is well-
known for his artworks produced by placing computers under high load.
Ade Ward is famous for his Auto-Illustrator software – a satiric remake
of the commercial vector-graphic program Adobe Illustrator – which was
awarded the artistic software award at the 2001 Transmediale Festival in
Berlin.

20010505. 13 track ep made up entirely of material generated using hand-
crafted Macintosh and Unix applications. The tracks are compilations of
artificial harmony fully composed by man himself from wetware to
hardware. A hymn of praise to electronics, fulfilled with machine-
generated and muddled sounds, with different sonic threads reminding one
of the noise of factories and the live electric tingle of ambient. There
is no chance to relax. Despite this, one can slide into the beauty of
transcendence or the beauty of melancholy. The sounds sometime are very
similar to the rhythmic aspirations of the organ – slow transitions
from one measure or tone to another making the music over-real. Is it a
challenge to music or is it simply the electronic music of this time?
Probably both, because it is impossible for ones soul to reject what one
may hear. The result is a rich, multilayered sound; fully controlled,
but unpredictable to the point that every performance is different. 13
track electroacoustic ep.