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Artist
The Cray Twins
12+ albums
experimental
about
The Cray Twins make electronic instruments from the wind & the waves. From traffic & machinery. From birds' wings & human voices. They build their harmonic & melodic structures by sculpting recordings of the landscape. The music is experimental, but driven by the sources of things, rather than the desire for novelty. ::: The Cray Twins were born 23 seconds apart, at 9am on the 30th of April 1981. From an early age a synchrony in their habits was apparent. A certain obsessive quality of temperament, revolving around sets and the physical organisation of objects, marked their formative years. At school they showed an aptitude for mathematics, and a dislike of biology "bordering on fanaticism". They were jointly excluded from their school, after excoriating a teacher over the inelegance of an algebraic proof. And so the Cray Twins' collective evolution began. The old and "discredited" was swept out. "Absolute precision in the investigation of auditory phenomena" was recognised as the "prime necessity". Cray Zero takes up the story. "Our first sonic work was derived from the construction of a regular decagon, using only compasses and straightedge. However we later came to realise our error: we had chosen a subject to which we were emotionally attached. "We realised we could no longer tolerate a return to the old errors. We must abandon the human standard of ethics, and instead propel ourselves towards a new imperative: the only alternative. Our music, it was clear, must be n
