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The Devil's Wave

by David Hindmarch

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1.
Through Moribund Technology To A World Of Smoke 03:04
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The Devil's Wave 17:07
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The Sonic Rack 10:22
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The Machine Dreams 08:51
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The Gift 16:01
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The Artful Toys 03:24
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Toward Oblivion 19:55
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about

I first saw Dave live in a duet with The Rain Garden's Carl Peberdy, as The Marshmallow Maelstrom, which was certainly one of the most intriguing live improv gigs I've ever been to. After that he also joined Carl for a while in Shapeshifter playing synthesizer (the role I then took over). In those days he largely played a digital synth/keyboard, and his major musical taste was progressive rock. Since then he's broadened his outlook after getting into more seriously avant-garde and electroacoustic music, which is the field that David himself now works in.
THE DEVIL'S WAVE is his debut as an electroacoustic music soloist, and it's a pretty impressive one. Largely, David's method of sound construction is in the vein of INA.GRM artists like Parmegiani, Bayle or Zanési, although his compositional style is quite different. His main tool is a computer, with which he uses a useful sound manipulation tool called Granulab. This can twist sound in real time, making the capture of live performance possible, instead of tedious hours of applying effects, cutting, pasting and mixing. Of course, the next stage is then much simpler, placing the elements in a multi-track for a final
mix-down. I imagine that Dave also does a lot more tweaking and manipulation as well, as the environments he creates are very complex, sometimes subtle, sometimes really dynamic, and always engaging.
Being blind, I guess Dave has an advantage in the perception of sound, and much less to distract him. Some of the works featured are like sonic films, others mangle the sonics so extremely that any relation to the source material is lost. Listening again to it whilst writing this, I can see a lot of Trevor Wishart influence, and a comparable underlying tongue-in-cheek humour rears up here and there. To review the different tracks wouldn't be easy, as it all tends to fit together rather well as a huge album jigsaw, which can make it feel almost like one big suite. So, in all, a surprising debut indeed. And, he's already come up with a sequel!

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released December 20, 2018

1. Through Moribund Technology To A World Of Smoke 3'02"
2. The Devil's Wave 17'02"
a) Reduced To Wave; b) From Wing Beats Of The Dead To The Borderline; c) Upon A Wave Of Desolation In A Land Of Ceaseless Muttering; d) Passing Through The Devil's Nightlights; e) Quiescence And Irrational Progression; Hearing The Past Switched On In Stagnant Waters; g) Freed Within The Thunder, Hurled Through The Last Chant, A Clamouring Of The Lost At The Platform's End And The Train Receding.
3. The Sonic Rack 10'21"
a) A Tortured Sound And Entanglement; b) Agglomeration And Cacophony; c) The Found Identity, The Fading Clamour Of Many Bells.
4. The Machine Dreams 8'51"
5. The Gift 15'53"
a) The Shamans' Gather; b) The Gift Answers, Rain Falls Whispering Against The Crumbling Ruin; c) The Voice Declaims The Rise And Fall Of The Companies; d) Creation Of The Gift; e) The Voices Epilogue Within The Wasteland.
6. The Artful Toys 3'20"
7. Toward Oblivion 19'51"
a) Ascent Through Earth's Hell; b) The Place Of Mud And Prayer; c) Rest Amid The Silver Spheres; d) The Siren's Call To Memory; e) The Song Of Oblivion; f)The Soul's Dissolving.

Electroacoustic music © David Hindmarch 2004.
Project Co-ordinator: Alan Freeman.
Issued under licence from David Hindmarch.

Auricle AMCDR 179 DL © 2018

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