James Emrick - Actoma (2023)

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Title: Actoma
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Soda Gong / SODA012LP
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Quality: 16bit-44,1kHz FLAC / 24bit-48kHz FLAC
Total Time: 36:01
Total Size: 203 mb / 411 mb
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Tracklist
1. MWLHWOF-4 (03:29)
2. Upqp (03:42)
3. Skor (02:16)
4. Nooumenon (06:06)
5. Saxd (03:25)
6. NIAUW (02:42)
7. My TK1 (02:53)
8. Coufal (01:32)
9. Micle (04:03)
10. Begin_m (02:58)
11. Barrel Arbor (02:55)


Cincinnati’s experimental ambient incubator Soda Gong chase aces by Mister Water Wet, Exael and Flaty with James Emrick’s sublime debut album gush of bittersweet, generative expressionism.

“"Actoma" is the new full length record by New York–based musician James Emrick. Emrick may be best known for his work with Kinet Media, handling sound design and scoring for a number of their projects. He utilizes an array of granular and feedback processes within Max/MSP environments to arrive at an idiosyncratic form of computer music that feels willfully opposed to operating within the sediments of the genre.

Techniques such as real-time granulation of samples, Shepard tones, grain diffusion, and complex windowing allow Emrick to dramatize his source material in fascinating ways, and each moment of "Actoma" teems with widescreen textural allure. Perhaps Emrick’s greatest accomplishment is creating a music that remains rigorously committed to severe levels of abstraction while avoiding sterility and coldness entirely. It is a strange and otherworldly landscape indeed, but there is a consciousness there to perceive and record it.”