Avant Garde Snow
February 9th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I’m wary of using this term, ‘avant garde’, for anything. Everything is stolen, everything borrowed; no good art can ever be original. However, this guy seems to be doing something kind of surprising, kind of different, if not at all unique. What does seem to be kind of unique is his ability to control and shape the difference, the surprise, into something that can actually be listened to – something I, at least, really want to listen to.
What’s also quite unique and very, very clever, is that his tracks are never quite long enough. Unlike a lot of experimental electronic music, you don’t have time to get bored – you actually don’t quite have time to enjoy it, so you want to listen to it again, and again, and again…
I urge you to listen to this with headphones; it will sound like a mess on laptop speakers. But then, Mozart’s most crafted concerto would sound like a mess on laptop speakers. I won’t get started, but listening to music on laptop speakers is a bit like having a baby and then putting it into a blender before showing it to the world and enjoying its childhood and development. Anyway, with this track, I don’t even think good speakers would do it justice. You need to be enveloped by the sound, choked by it… there’s a moment, about halfway through, when you feel like the whole world is crumbling apart around you. It’s not often that listening to a piece of music makes my heart noticeably race.
Enjoy
