Otolathe presents a 7 track collection of explorations in what he calls Big Block Minimalism. Employing technologies like thyratron tube synthesizers, unstable old analog solid-state machines, field recordings, digital sampling, custom software, analog tape, and vinyl, Big Block Minimalism comes at you in large chunks. Unlike most "minimalist" works there is a shedload of brutal loud aggression going on. It’s ambient, but it’s noise. It is an effort to document the auditory instability of analog circuitry, but it is also a search for digital instability by setting grimy and crusty synthesizers such as the Metasonix S-1000 Wretchmachine and Hal McGee’s old Octave Cat into aleatoric and stochastic software constructs via Max/MSP, Reaktor and Ableton Live 7.
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