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Review: Domnitch + Gelfand + CoH + Prudence + Lopez + Tietchens - Liquified Sky

There’s something frightening about the fact that quantum behaviour can be observed on a scale we can visually perceive. Gone is the buffer of inarticulability and incomprehension, which held such alien processes within the realm of the mythic while the large-scale world continued to unfold within our cocooned understanding

Review: William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Aurora Liminalis

As I drift ever deeper into Aurora Liminalis, I am drawn into a certain descriptive phrase used during its press release: “undulating trails of light”. Rather than use it as a launch pad from which my own mental visuals take flight, I’m traveling in reverse; the more I listen,

Review: Richard Chartier - Recurrence

When listening to Recurrence, I think back to Chartier’s Transparency (Performance) – one of the first Line releases to grace the pages of ATTN – and appreciate the ways which he is capable of manipulating one’s perception of surrounding space and the listener’s own body. Transparency evokes a hyper-awareness,

Review: Lawrence English - For / Not For John Cage

A blurry mushroom lingers ghost-like on the cover of For/Not For John Cage. Here, the centenarian composer manifests through the hazy lens of English’s sound: outlines and textures smudged together, colours bleeding outward via thick applications of reverberation, with shapes retained but definition lost to the soft mercurial

Feature: LINE

PHOTO BY ROBERT ECKHARDT Line works explore our relationship with space and location, translate visual art concepts into audio, question our relationship with sound and unsettle our preconceptions of live music performance. Many of these releases derive from sound installations, in which physical factors – location, setup, perhaps even time of

Review: Pinkcourtesyphone - Foley Folly Folio

Line’s primary output is an intensive dissection (and reassembly) of sound. Each release comes wrapped in a thorough description of its context and purpose, and even though the label’s back catalogue amounts to an eclectic body of sound analysis, the premise that unites the releases is actually rather

Review: Frank Bretschneider - Kippschwingungen

With my previous exposure to Bretschneider’s working consisting exclusively of Rhythm, EXP and last year’s Komet, Kippschwingungen is something of a surprise. The album was primarily devised on the near-extinct Subharchord synthesizer, which was initially intended to provide sonic special effects for television and film back in the