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Dense waves of sound rise and collide, abrasive and serene at once. They press and swell around you, thickening into a shifting mass.
The inaugural release on KMRU’s fledgling OFNOT imprint, Dissolution Grip is an ambitious project that emerged from his studies at Berlin’s Universität der Künste. The Kenyan composer and sound artist is best known for his field recording work, and as he traveled across Europe and the wider world for regular live performances, he made a practice of documenting each city he passed through. As his studies deepened and his practice evolved, KMRU began to question the purpose of these recordings and what role they played in his own self-expression. At the same time, he turned more fully toward synthesis. In its most elemental form, synthesis reduces sound to its fundamentals, leading KMRU to consider not only how these sounds might be harnessed, but how they could be more dynamically combined with field recordings.
Guided by Jasmine Guffond at Berlin’s Universität der Künste, KMRU examined waveforms, the visual representation of sound, and began writing scores derived from their shapes, gradually translating them into raw synthesized tones. Reflecting on the spaces that inspired him and that he moved through, he decided that rather than using environmental recordings as an aesthetic marker, these captured moments would instead guide the shaping of the waveforms themselves. Each sound is born from a field recording, though none of those recordings remain audible in their original form.
The album’s opening side, “Till Hurricane Bisect,” is a 15-minute composition that unfolds at a glacial pace, transforming blustering wind into gasping drones, glassy oscillations, and choked distortion. Cosmic and meditative, it reflects both KMRU’s patience as a composer and his precision as a sound engineer, combining the expansive world building of his Editions Mego album Peel with the rumbling energy of Limen, a collaboration with Aho Ssan. On the title track, KMRU turns toward a more orchestral sensibility, conducting a shifting ensemble of warbling synth tones into a durational symphony. Beginning almost imperceptibly, Dissolution Grip expands gradually into a dense harmonic mass that is powerful without becoming overwhelming. It is music shaped by place and experience, offering insight into KMRU’s past and present while pointing toward the future contours of his musical philosophy.
€29,00
in stock
Dense waves of sound rise and collide, abrasive and serene at once. They press and swell around you, thickening into a shifting mass.
The inaugural release on KMRU’s fledgling OFNOT imprint, Dissolution Grip is an ambitious project that emerged from his studies at Berlin’s Universität der Künste. The Kenyan composer and sound artist is best known for his field recording work, and as he traveled across Europe and the wider world for regular live performances, he made a practice of documenting each city he passed through. As his studies deepened and his practice evolved, KMRU began to question the purpose of these recordings and what role they played in his own self-expression. At the same time, he turned more fully toward synthesis. In its most elemental form, synthesis reduces sound to its fundamentals, leading KMRU to consider not only how these sounds might be harnessed, but how they could be more dynamically combined with field recordings.
Guided by Jasmine Guffond at Berlin’s Universität der Künste, KMRU examined waveforms, the visual representation of sound, and began writing scores derived from their shapes, gradually translating them into raw synthesized tones. Reflecting on the spaces that inspired him and that he moved through, he decided that rather than using environmental recordings as an aesthetic marker, these captured moments would instead guide the shaping of the waveforms themselves. Each sound is born from a field recording, though none of those recordings remain audible in their original form.
The album’s opening side, “Till Hurricane Bisect,” is a 15-minute composition that unfolds at a glacial pace, transforming blustering wind into gasping drones, glassy oscillations, and choked distortion. Cosmic and meditative, it reflects both KMRU’s patience as a composer and his precision as a sound engineer, combining the expansive world building of his Editions Mego album Peel with the rumbling energy of Limen, a collaboration with Aho Ssan. On the title track, KMRU turns toward a more orchestral sensibility, conducting a shifting ensemble of warbling synth tones into a durational symphony. Beginning almost imperceptibly, Dissolution Grip expands gradually into a dense harmonic mass that is powerful without becoming overwhelming. It is music shaped by place and experience, offering insight into KMRU’s past and present while pointing toward the future contours of his musical philosophy.
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