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Wayne Smith makes a new good one.
Review appeared in issue #@&% of the WIRE
Aero-Mic'd
San Francisco's Aero-Mic'd could just be the Webern of the electronic underground. While eschewing ties with hardcore electronica, lower case strategies or quiet-core, Aero Mic'd creates a series of noisette miniatures that place it along side the sonic pictures created on Eno's Another Green World, David Cunningham's Flying Lizard instrumentals or David Toop & Steve Beresford's General Strike material. "Under A Sun" is the second Aero-Mic'd CD. As with the first release, its overall length is just under 30:00. The average length of each track is around 2 minutes with the longest one clocking in at 4:23. This is borne of punk aesthetic and a love of the 45 rpm as well as a feeling that CD's are just too damn long.
Brief as the tracks may be, Wayne Smith (aka. Aero-Mic’d) says what is needed in an instant. The pieces never feel unfinished and flow into one another making the disc seamless, concise, but never terse. Designed with precision, there’s nothing too edgy or difficult about this music, but it’s deep in the spirit of improvisation. a ‘Hedda Gabbler at a Junior College’ is a creepy mixture of industrial grinding, buzzes, clicks and ethereal voices that mutate into a soundscape of overlapping drones and looping tones that have nothing to do with what' come before it.
Having lost most of the material in a computer crash Wayne was forced to start over with only fragments of what he had initially created. Left with partial stereo and mono takes of what was supposed to be. Smith reworked erroneous mixes with noise that was unremovable. So his thinking was to add more noise and when that didn't work he added more bird sounds. "Birds are hopeful", says Wayne. There's a humble quiet nature about this noise music that isn't very noisy, but full of hope and despair.
Tom Recchion, 2003
San Francisco's Aero-Mic'd could just be the Webern of the electronic underground. While eschewing ties with hardcore electronica, lower case strategies or quiet-core, Aero Mic'd creates a series of noisette miniatures that place it along side the sonic pictures created on Eno's Another Green World, David Cunningham's Flying Lizard instrumentals or David Toop & Steve Beresford's General Strike material. "Under A Sun" is the second Aero-Mic'd CD. As with the first release, its overall length is just under 30:00. The average length of each track is around 2 minutes with the longest one clocking in at 4:23. This is borne of punk aesthetic and a love of the 45 rpm as well as a feeling that CD's are just too damn long.
Brief as the tracks may be, Wayne Smith (aka. Aero-Mic’d) says what is needed in an instant. The pieces never feel unfinished and flow into one another making the disc seamless, concise, but never terse. Designed with precision, there’s nothing too edgy or difficult about this music, but it’s deep in the spirit of improvisation. a ‘Hedda Gabbler at a Junior College’ is a creepy mixture of industrial grinding, buzzes, clicks and ethereal voices that mutate into a soundscape of overlapping drones and looping tones that have nothing to do with what' come before it.
Having lost most of the material in a computer crash Wayne was forced to start over with only fragments of what he had initially created. Left with partial stereo and mono takes of what was supposed to be. Smith reworked erroneous mixes with noise that was unremovable. So his thinking was to add more noise and when that didn't work he added more bird sounds. "Birds are hopeful", says Wayne. There's a humble quiet nature about this noise music that isn't very noisy, but full of hope and despair.
Tom Recchion, 2003
