Christopher Bissonnette - Periphery

Christopher Bissonnette examines the fragility of space on Periphery. Running simple piano tones and pastoral orchestration through randomizing filters and generative DSP sweeps, he makes music that threatens to vanish in an instant. "In Accordance" exhales with a hint of static and fulsome reverb, while isolated piano notes search for one another in the echoing space; "Substrata" hums and mumbles with subterranean noises, as violins and cellos strain through layers of harmonics to produce whispers of seismic movement; and "Tenor Viol" is filled with hanging notes, cello tones that are looped beyond human sustain to an infinite horizon, while a microscopic pulse pricks at your ears. A veteran of Canada's minimalist Thinkbox collective, Bissonnette works on an introspective level, building pellucid arrangements that suspend you, breathless, in a perpetually meditative state.

Christopher Bissonnette
Kranky [2005]

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