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Title: Strange Familiar
Review: This soundtrack to a Dutch installation utilizes electronic sounds which are familiar to any fan of modern Musique Concrete, but does so in a way which is totally unique to Gregory Alan Taylor's way of working. Variable, changable electronic looping is used to make the sounds almost rhythmic, giving them an internal drive and imposing a tautological order on otherwise random sounds. This creates a sense of purpose and even peace out of the ur-chaos.The overall effect is very restrained and controlled, even though the source material appears to be randomly drawn noises from the world around us. It is an odd dichotomy, an oxymoron of sound, a dialectical exploration of form within disarray.
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