Fallen Sun, Sacher Pelz,
Thomas Bey William Bailey - Acousmatomisation
A collab between 3 artists. One from Malaysia, Milano in Italy, and South Carolina in the United States. Malaysia-based Fallen Sun is the solo industrial/noise outfit of Y'ng-Yin Siew, which has been active since 2023. Fallen Sun is also known as Reverse Image. Sacher Pelz is the first project by Maurizio Bianchi, which he started before MB. He started Salcher Pelz back in 1979. Thomas Bey William Bailey has been an active experimental noise artist since 2006, and also works as The Domestic Front and Thomas Transparent.
These 3 people have joined together to create something called Acousmatomisation. It´s described as a coined term. Acousmatic means a sound without a physical source. And Atomization, the breaking of something into very fine particles. The album contains 6 tracks, with a total of almost 63 minutes. This one is a joint release between Attenuation Circuit and Grubenwehr Freiburg.
The first track is called Atomizing Spectrocopy. A high-pitched tone and some fluttering digital electronic sounds smother into glitchy and liquid-based static from a short-wave radio... get it? That´s just the first few seconds! Sounding like aliens sending something through a radio. The sound of haywire AI making harsh noise, or just the sound of information running through the wires beneath our great oceans.
The second track, Fluid Molecules, offers crystal-clear shimmering sounds and chopped-up human speech with a rising soundscape intensity in the background. The sound of electronic molecules smashing into each other, and it gets rebuilt again and again. Blistering laser-thin sounds smash into the TV screen from some old Atari game. Very intense material here. It does remind me (sound-wise) of a Third Organ release I once reviewed.
The third track is called Chemical Oxidation. Something drags itself from some cellar while whispering voices crawl over you, sounding like a digital nightmare. A spray of wet-static, a sensation of aural cleansing. Surreal material, just like the scene where the girl in Poltergeist gets contact through the TV.
Concrete Absorption is the fourth track. Splintered rotating shards of digitalized steel whirl around while several hard drives and old-school modems simply burn out due to overheating... a complete overload of high-pitched metallic 16-bit noise.
The fifth track is called Particle Deterioration. More with ambient moods, with some short-wave radio recordings. The spacy walls of noise get denser the further we get into the track itself, and more brutal layers of soundscapes are added as well. Interesting field recordings can also be heard.
The last track can be heard by the curious who have read this review. Acousmatomisation is definitely not an easy-listening experience, even for the ears of harsh noise or power electronics. Filled with high tones and has an eerie and very abstract kind of spaciness to the sound. Something new, and not your traditional kind of noise.
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