{"product_id":"cst165-t-gowdy-miracles","title":"CST165 T. Gowdy | Miracles","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eT. Gowdy has kept up a productive albeit mostly virtual pace since the release of \u003cem\u003eTherapy With Colour\u003c\/em\u003e (his third full-length album and first for Constellation) which dropped just as things were locking down back in spring 2020: performances at numerous festivals including MUTEK Montréal, Node Festival and NEW NOW; audiovisual pieces exhibited at various European galleries and events; a track and video for Constellation’s Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series; sound design for the documentary Atalaya by filmmaker Emma Roufs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGowdy now returns with \u003cem\u003eMiracles\u003c\/em\u003e, his second full-length for Constellation, which draws on source materials originally performed in 2018 for an unreleased audio\/visual project based around surveillance footage—a precursor to video-capped, monitor-based horizons that soon took on new meanings. Re-immersing himself in those recordings, Gowdy disassembles and deploys them as raw source material for new experiments with vactrols, noise gates and analog-to-digital triggering and aliasing, the original recordings juxtaposed anew amidst their successive textural and rhythmic treatments. Gowdy keeps this re-composition process stripped down, elemental and purposive, guided by an ascetic Aufhebung: synthesis as sublation—subjecting a temporal material\/theme to analysis\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand transformation, reintegrating to form a whole that overcomes what it preserves without erasure, reshaping and intrinsically carrying its origins forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere \u003cem\u003eTherapy With Colour\u003c\/em\u003e was strictly and rigorously a set of stereo live performances, \u003cem\u003eMiracles\u003c\/em\u003e fuses iterative—though still spartan—layers of performance. “\u003cem\u003eTherapy With Colour\u003c\/em\u003e was about healing through self-hypnosis; \u003cem\u003eMiracles\u003c\/em\u003e is about forging a future with memory through subjection to trigger mechanisms,” notes Gowdy. The result is a captivating collection of minimal IDM and oscillated electronics from the Montréal\/Berlin producer, working primarily in a 120-140 BPM zone of tonal percussion and corrugated pulse. Gowdy’s sensibility and sound palette gets deeper and dirtier, summoning new pathways of alluvial flicker and abraded euphoria. As the album progresses, low-pass gate vactrols coalesce into a clear and vital theme, conveying immanence through woody timbres at times reminiscent of the Shinrin-yoku aesthetic (Japanese ‘forest bathing’), though always with a grainy transcendence rather than invoking any clean pure sheen. Gowdy consistently heats and heightens the presence of each component in the mix, balancing different elements in democratic compression\/distortion, attaining an unornamental and earnest form of mantric-industrial majesty. \u003cem\u003eMiracles\u003c\/em\u003e is live, corporeal, activated electronic music of the highest caliber, deployed with monastic and meditative focus. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eThanks for listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+WAV+ArtPrints","offer_id":56361839264036,"sku":"yrh1789925308061","price":20.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":56361839296804,"sku":"kxc1789925308062","price":17.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":56361839329572,"sku":"qqc1789925308063","price":17.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":56361839362340,"sku":"tth1789925308064","price":7.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":56361839395108,"sku":"gdf1789925308065","price":5.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":56361839427876,"sku":"pdu1789925308066","price":4.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2772\/3044\/files\/cst165-t-gowdy-miracles_1.jpg?v=1789925311","url":"https:\/\/burtprimehub.shop\/products\/cst165-t-gowdy-miracles","provider":"burtprimehub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}