Dave Fuglewicz and Hal McGee - Synergistic Reconstruction
58 minutes
1. It's Just A Natural Exponential Function
2. Percussive Concaphonetta
3. The Third Fulcrum Might Work
4. An Obscure Reference To A Seething Malestorm
Dave Fuglewicz:
Sound Forum Synth, Synthia, Coagula, Rollosonic, Granulab, Metatron, Meteorite software synthesizers
- original materials created March 2010
Hal McGee:
circuit bent Casio SK-1, Korg Monotron, Moog MF-107 FreqBox, Moog Rogue, Moog MF-104Z Analog Delay
Constructed by McGee on a Fostex X-12 4-track cassette recorder
Mixed and mastered by McGee June 24, 2011
One of the foremost American noise artists, the superhumanly prolific Hal McGee, teams up with another stalwart of the U.S. cassette underground, Dave Fuglewicz, to create "Synergistic Reconstruction". The original sound source material by Fuglewicz, composed on software synthesizers, was remixed and added to by McGee on a bunch of analog synths and circuit-bent instruments producing all manner of electronically derived sounds. McGee, as mixer, really sticks to his Burroughsian guns on this one, using chance tactics to slam sound fields against one another, creating their own unintentional logic. These compositions (there are four) are built from such disparate sonic events that they seem to be always moving towards some impossible destination. Fuglewicz's looping textures reign in McGee's more excessive tendencies as, amidst all the chance happenings and bombardments, a directional line will emerge moving towards a cohesive structure, centering the composition with McGee's squabbling sweeps and chattering seeming less reckless and more integral to the overall fabric. Fascinating and recommended!
- PBK, Killing Birds, May 2012.
1. It's Just A Natural Exponential Function
2. Percussive Concaphonetta
3. The Third Fulcrum Might Work
4. An Obscure Reference To A Seething Malestorm
Dave Fuglewicz:
Sound Forum Synth, Synthia, Coagula, Rollosonic, Granulab, Metatron, Meteorite software synthesizers
- original materials created March 2010
Hal McGee:
circuit bent Casio SK-1, Korg Monotron, Moog MF-107 FreqBox, Moog Rogue, Moog MF-104Z Analog Delay
Constructed by McGee on a Fostex X-12 4-track cassette recorder
Mixed and mastered by McGee June 24, 2011
One of the foremost American noise artists, the superhumanly prolific Hal McGee, teams up with another stalwart of the U.S. cassette underground, Dave Fuglewicz, to create "Synergistic Reconstruction". The original sound source material by Fuglewicz, composed on software synthesizers, was remixed and added to by McGee on a bunch of analog synths and circuit-bent instruments producing all manner of electronically derived sounds. McGee, as mixer, really sticks to his Burroughsian guns on this one, using chance tactics to slam sound fields against one another, creating their own unintentional logic. These compositions (there are four) are built from such disparate sonic events that they seem to be always moving towards some impossible destination. Fuglewicz's looping textures reign in McGee's more excessive tendencies as, amidst all the chance happenings and bombardments, a directional line will emerge moving towards a cohesive structure, centering the composition with McGee's squabbling sweeps and chattering seeming less reckless and more integral to the overall fabric. Fascinating and recommended!
- PBK, Killing Birds, May 2012.