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Phonic Psychomimesis
6+ albums
noiseexperimentalfield recordingsabstractacousmatic
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Phonic Psychomimesis is an abstract expressionism and non-music duo formed in 2009 in Rīga, Latvia by Rihards Bražinskis and Raitis Upens. In 2011, Impulsive Habitat, a label focused on field recording-based works, published their release Trainishness. The work consists of pure trainspotting field recordings with an aim to abstract these such a cliche sounds from themselves. The arrangement of pieces from the different angles of the train (the drone of closer coming locomotive, slowly stopping and starting of the train, the squeaking of the tambour rubbers from the inside of the train, high frequencies of the breaks, kvasi-rhythmics of the typical train movements and the close-up of the rails) makes it hard to tell what is exactly happening there - just the apprehension of trainishness remains. Played, not layered, in semi-improvised manner. Just processed, no additional effects used whatsoever. http://www.impulsivehabitat.com User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
