Therapy With Colour - 180g Vinyl

Description

GOWDY’S MOST SHARP-EDGED SOLO WORK. 'Therapy With Colour' is the first album by Montreal composer and sound artist T. Gowdy for the Constellation label. Combining experimental electronics with elements of musique concrète, rhythmic grooves and intoxicating sonic atmospheres, 'Therapy With Colour' is a brilliantly adventurous record. T. Gowdy has already released three albums of predominantly ambient electronic music with lush textures. His superb audiovisual performances have been presented at MUTEK (Montreal and Barcelona) and at Spektrum (Berlin), in addition to his ongoing work as a producer/engineer, with more than fifty albums to his credit to date, including Suuns, Ensemble and Ada Lea. Inspired by experiments conducted with the Nova Pro 100 Light & Sound Mind Machine (one of the best-known hypnosis devices, released in the late 1990s), 'Therapy With Colour' is to date Gowdy’s most sharp-edged solo work sonically and conceptually. The album’s five tracks are drawn from live, linear, real-time stereo recordings, originating in an audiovisual collaboration between Gowdy and artist Laura Buckley (whose scanner works appear on the cover). On 'Therapy With Colour', the music is certainly meditative, but in a decidedly contemporary and highly engaging way. These pieces avoid flashy New Age tropes, long drones or environmental music. In line with the theories of brainwave synchronization by the Mind Machine, they make use of adjacent techno pulses and rhythms, while functioning as dissociative concentration music. Each of the five songs has a different mood but forms a harmonious whole.