Lgamble
80mm O!I!O (Part 1) 3" CD (E36)
This is the first in a planned triptych of 3" CDs by English composer
Lee Gamble. Consisting of seven virtual-hybrid models of spontaneous
and ordered (non-essential goal) related celomund O!I!O, these
computer audio compositions are culled from live and studio recordings
made between 1999 and 2006.
Lee is a founding member of the UK-based Cyrk collective, and also
the host of the Active Cancellation show on Resonance FM (the follow-
up to the excellent Utter_Neevs).
See also Outposts
First edition of 300 copies.
£6.50
Massimo Ricci at Touching Extremes
Lee Gamble, Berlin 2006. Photograph by Mark Schreiber
His entertaining, eventful debut digitally reconstitutes existing recordings
into seven brief electroacoustic compositions, which playfully bounce and
jump–cut from shifting layers of sibilant frequencies to fractal pitch-
mangling to busy, boinging barrages of all manner of random sound.
Nick Cane in The Wire
—
I must admit that, after almost 40 years of listening to sounds of every
conceivable species, there are still records that leave me at a loss for words.
Enter Lee Gamble, author of ‘seven virtual-hybrid models of spontaneous
and ordered (non essential goal) related Celomund O!I!O! computer audio
compositions’ (of course, Lee, I trust you). Comprised of little more than
19 minutes — it’s a 3-inch, folks — there are more abrupt changes,
sudden discharges, alien burps and ultra-short complex melodies here
than in the zapped circuit of an electronic pinball machine. Fizzing white
noise, extreme panning and continuously morphing timbres — which could
have been conceived either by a mad scientist or a deranged dentist —
are featured in this (unfortunately) short briefing about the best of what
computer music has to offer nowadays. Could have been released only by
Entr’acte, the only label whose record covers must be scissor-sliced to
access the content. Incidentally, there’s still someone around talking
about ‘seven notes’.
Massimo Ricci at Touching Extremes