Chvad SB‘s Phenomenalism, Cartesian Doubt and Bomb #20 was apparently two years in the making and was constructed without the aid of a computer or a human to manipulate or arrange the sounds. How? I’m still not quite sure I understand how, but the music you hear was built from a self-playing modular synthesizer programmed to take repeating phrases and make them non-repeating. The result is a very robotic and, on the surface, calculatedly random array of sounds that successfully demonstrates its reverence to Chvad SB’s sources of inspiration, namely the film scores of Forbidden Planet and Dark Star, while conveying his own understanding of how those sounds can still emote and construct something imaginative and tangible.

There is a video companion to this piece as well, which was created by video artist William Laziza.

I’ll admit, though, that, at one-hour and thirteen minutes, this isn’t the easiest listen.  Links for purchase can be found here.

Review originally published here:
http://www.letters-from-a-tapehead.com/2016/06/gotta-read-labels-silber-records.html