Ohio avant-garde trio Hyrrokkin and Japanese overlord of everything noise Merzbow have teamed up for a new record titled Faltered Pursuit. We're more than stoked to set your speakers completely fucking ablaze with their new piece "Spatially Raised, From Seed To Volatility," which is as unrelenting as it deafening.
"Once we had Merzbow's tracks, the process started with a bunch of listening," said Hyrrokkin guitarist Ed Ricart. "I wrote down the time code wherever I saw a good opportunity for us to respond to what he was doing. I found some key pitches that worked within these various sections I mapped out. I assigned a numerical value to each of the pitches. I used a random number generator to output sequences, and we used those sequences to determine the order of the pitches I'd selected, and made a bunch of different tone rows that way.
"I made a giant matrix of these various sequences. I wanted to pay homage to Merzbow's process, giving some control over to the computer, to allow it to influence my own compositional choices. It was fun to approach the composition process as sort of a nod to the genesis of electronic music, serialism, Stockhausen, etc."
Faltered Pursuit is out November 5. Pre-orders are available here. Faltered Pursuit was mixed by Jason LaFarge (Swans, Nastie Band) at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn and mastered by James Plotkin (Sunn O))), Gnaw). The artwork was created by Ian Anderson/The Designers Republic (Aphex Twin, Stern).
