Isomorphs, by Matthew D. Gantt

Isomorphs

by Matthew D. Gantt

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	2.	New.Wav (BMF) 04:55
	3.	Ephemera 10:55

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Following up on "Plastics" (Orange Milk '17), "Isomorphs" filters smartphone noise, trap sample packs and modular squelch through twenty-first century indeterminacy and digital pseudo-sensuality.

Inspired in equal parts by John Cage's chance operations, random MIDI structures, San Fransisco Tape Music Center experiments and Lex Luger's revolutionary production circa 2010, Gantt reckons with the impossible density of contemporary media by arbitrarily dividing it into three compositions.

Title track Isomorphs fastens the sonic vocabulary of an iPhone 5s onto a frame of procedurally generated MIDI. Taking cadences from the source material as a starting point, these sounds are orchestrated with a variety of media signifiers (arena-rock guitar, auto-tune sludge, sci-fi synths), and re-presented in both raw and mediated states.

"New.wavs (BMF)" is a type of speculative music drawing from the recombinant nature and cultural feedback found in genre-specific sample packs. This piece feeds Lex Luger's production from the Rick Ross hit "Blowin' Money Fast" through audio-to-MIDI processes, then uses the result as an aleatoric score to map back onto manipulated material from the official Lex Luger Drum Kit sample set.

"Ephemera" was originally presented as a quad-speaker accompaniment for dance, and was subsequently folded down into stereo. It bleeps, but also bloops.

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Art by Will Halcomb

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released December 1, 2017

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Oxtail Recordings Sydney, Australia

Ambient noise and broken songs.

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Apr 2024
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Mar 2024
Wire Hums

Nov 2023
Low Light

Oct 2023

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