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Lowercase Noises

  Tobias Fischer

Sound Artist Andy Othling uses his loops with care and subtlety: Rather than creating repetitive, hypnotic patterns, Othling switches back and forth between compositional modules with great precision, creating an organic flow between subdued, expectatant passages and elegant dynamic sequences, in which the plaintive splendour of the music is brought to a quiet climax. The performance at hand is already the eleventh part in an ongoing series of spartan videos featuring nothing but close-ups of his legs and effect pedals and airy atmospheric soundscapes, but nowhere has he sounded more brittle and classical than here.

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