Raudive – A System Of Objects

Label/Cat#: Macro Recordings – MACROM 34
Year: 18 November, 2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 150 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
1. Feral (02:05)
2. Slowing Time (04:12)
3. African Wig (05:52)
4. Ruins (06:05)
5. Visitor (07:44)
6. Dusk (01:17)
7. Furniture (05:04)
8. Carcass (04:19)
9. Blood & Hair (03:25)
10. Missing In Action (04:38)
11. Floor (05:30)
12. Small Changes (08:04)
13. Fragments (01:11)
14. Summoning (05:52)

When Messiaen set out to transcribe birds’ songs and employ them as models for his compositions, he couldn’t have predicted that by the 1990s wild birds would have started to learn mobile phone ringtone patterns. For “A System of Objects”, RAUDIVE mirrors environments structured as by an invisible hand. He maps an obliquely constructed world through fictional field recordings in which you loose all certainty of what is nature and what is design. Raudive’s music celebrates dance and auditory scenes as rituals, employing our surroundings as sources of ahistorical found sound – primitive technologies used to reach magickal states.

If we can’t be sure any longer of distinctions between truth and manipulation, rituals guide our relations to all encounters. A drum machine and a wooden stick, a sawtooth-shaped electric current and a split rock, woven cloth and petroleum smear all turn into empirical objects of the same class, without a definite past or a predictable impact. We have become dependent on technology we don’t grasp beyond its display surface. Lost on reason, we are thrown back on the ritual to reveal the hidden relations of what surrounds us: the club as the emblematic center of the emancipated individual, longing to bond with equals, again.