RIVAL CONSOLES

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city: London
country: UK
genre: Dance, Electronic
styles: Ambient, Ambient Idm, Compositional Ambient, Electronica, Intelligent Dance Music, Microhouse, Neo-Classical

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Erased Tapes

If Not Now

out on December 02, 2024

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“This piece is part of an ongoing desire to make impressionistic pieces that sit somewhere between acoustic and electronic worlds.

The piano recording is often natural but sometimes manipulated and stitched together to create a slightly broken sounding sequence. I find this unusual because in the beginning it’s almost falling apart as there is very little structure and only the faintest hint of melody pushing forward. Yet, somehow I always went back to it over the years and I ended up developing it into what became a strangely beautiful composition.

There is a lot of emphasis on space and stillness in this piece, which I find very difficult to create as it’s easy in an era of mass equipment/tools/things to want for the music to be bigger and more layered. Against that this piece can seem simultaneously weak but also very strong in contrast.

I am a fan of substituting known sounds for others, for example there is a strange lead sound that is a synth which sounds like a combination of strings and flutes. Later an actual Cello is heard (played by Anne Müller) when I realised the piece needed to reach a moment of clarity, before it erupts into a darker, energised section.” – Ryan Lee West

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