{"id":1451,"date":"2017-01-04T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:20:03","slug":"tiny-mix-tapes-on-slight-at-that-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2017\/01\/tiny-mix-tapes-on-slight-at-that-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Mix Tapes on Slight At That Contact<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Cabaniss writes on Slight At That Contact<\/em> for TMT Cerberus:<\/p>\n

“…cold electroacoustic tones numb the senses with a wall of hushed distortion…One could listen to escape the darkness that surrounds us, but Slight at that Contact invites in the harsh tones we relegate to the background, providing a soothing balm to our modern malaise.”<\/p>\n

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In 2014 I interviewed<\/a> Students of Decay head Alex Cobb about his own music and various musings on the state of experimental noise and drone. At one point we spoke of \u201cthe enchantment of the everyday,\u201d and as Cobb elaborated, \u201cApplied to music, it\u2019s this idea that there are very interesting sounds (that of course have different subjective \u201cmeanings\u201d to every auditor) that exist in the world and are viable, even ideal, for use in compositions.\u201d On the latest Students of Decay release, Billy Gomberg applies that phrase to a bleak urban hellscape. The sounds of the machines\u2014running at all hours of the day\u2014become more prevalent the later into the night, when everyone else has drifted off. These are the sounds we grow used to in the background; of the electronics that hum, the subways and sewers that shuffle beneath our feet. When we\u2019re in an environment devoid of those sounds, we grow uneasy as we confront the cold silence of our\u00a0surroundings.<\/p>\n

Slight at that Contact<\/i> is the sound of literal urban decay, where every crack and hiss overpowers the occasional soothing tone and naturalistic element. \u201cCaprice\u201d stands out for the disparate sounds of field recordings that give way to a choppy, amorphous drone. \u201cOpenness\u201d is the closest the album gets to a soothing feel, if only because the cold electroacoustic tones numb the senses with a wall of hushed distortion. Perhaps the dark post-election political landscape influenced my listening, but Slight at that Contact<\/i> sounds angry, disaffected, yet ultimately defiant. One could listen to escape the darkness that surrounds us, but Slight at that Contact<\/i> invites in the harsh tones we relegate to the background, providing a soothing balm to our modern\u00a0malaise.<\/p>\n

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Jason Cabaniss writes on Slight At That Contact for TMT Cerberus: “…cold electroacoustic tones numb the senses with a wall of hushed distortion…One could listen to escape the darkness that surrounds us, but Slight at that Contact invites in the harsh tones we relegate to the background, providing a soothing balm to our modern malaise.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,26],"tags":[73,62,69,57,16,72],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-release","category-review","tag-cerberus","tag-lp","tag-review","tag-solo","tag-students-of-decay","tag-tiny-mix-tapes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1682,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2018\/09\/beginners-in-tiny-mix-tapes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":0},"title":"Beginners in Tiny Mix Tapes","author":"billy gomberg","date":"September 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A walk through the zone from Jason C at Tiny Mix Tapes: Where\u00a0Slight At That Contact\u00a0was the crumbling, desolate urban hellscape right before your eyes,\u00a0Beginners\u00a0is what remains: darkness, stretches of silence, lingering pulses of the grid, a sonic mirage of hope beyond the bleakness. 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