Bit By Bit, Cell By Cell

General | Feb 2007

Reviews

Dick Benedict
Reviewed 2007-03-22
Xperimentl/classical. Strange combination of altered voices and an Atari 800XL. Songs are clearly influenced by more standard classical forms, but sound a bit alien due to the voice altering, dissonance, and teh Atari. FCC clean. Picks 3,6,1,7.

**1-2:09) A recitative sung through a talk-box with slight modulations. Good.
2-4:43) A few harsh elec. tones that waver and buzz around each other. Fadeout.
**3-5:15) Recitative with dubbed, affected, voices in background.
4-3:12) Screwed male vox and fem vox in call and response. They're seeing about fake statistics!?!? Funny, bloopy electronics. Ends quiet.
*5-12:01) A trio of altered voices singing in polyphony. Alto enters midway. Ends on full chord.
**6-6:32) Full orchestration. Elec. slightly mroe advanced sounding than 8-bit. Driving, repeating rhythmic figure but the harmonies and voicings slowly evolve like an extended computer-game Bach Prelude. Sudden ending.
**7-2:20) Powerful wind noises. -1:05 airy, fem vox echoes in background faintly. Ends on low cello tone that emerges from swirling winds.
8-14:51) Recitative to arpeggioed crude electronic accompaniment like a harpsichord. Also periods of vocal polyphony. Ends solo vox and elec. acc.
9-3:44) Queasy difficult electronic sounds. Sudden end.
10-4:26) Another tense, unhappy electronic composition.
11-3:16) Many voices. Think Scelsi almost. An easier listen tho.

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Charting

2007-04-01 — 2007-06-03 Classical/Experimental
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Track listing

1. Portal
2. Vanishing Point
3. Sugar High
4. Eep
5. Yours Forever
6. Grid
7. Window
8. Bit By Bit, Cell By Cell
9. Resolution
10. Toolbox
11. Extreme Beauty
12. Portal (Video)