peter smeekens, aka formatt, is an experimental
composer and sound artist from turnhout, belgium.
more info courtesy roborecords:
The very matter of sonic microscopy, pulling
found sounds out of context to fully explore
and adjust their hidden characteristics, never
exposing light on their unpresuming origin,
has become the driving vessel for investigating
the extremes of auditory perception. His sound
never stays silent till the last, yet squeamishly
evoking timorous phrases that gradually coalesce
around the subtle treasures of the soil. Fractured
breathy analog injections, tilted from a scarcely
asserted sonic palette, are decidedly adjustable,
hovering forward yet peeling their modulated
delays fully into the arctic backbone of resonating
hollowness. Providing a few flirtations with
fuzzy pulses and fluctuating watery plops,
the frictional rhythmic resistance that comes
drifting onto the surface is suspiciously
dark in its corners of scooped-out complexity,
as if the stark subtlety and finesse has fallen
into the clutches of a hypnotic state of mind,
mysteriously paying homage to imminent dub
techniques, that fight like Kilkenny cats
over evaporated sinewaves. Formatt's work
tends to emphaze a schizophrenic structure,
infusing the sound-clusters with highly deliberate
analog patterns hence any potential sound
grown to the surface gets seemingly restructured
into the core of its faceless vessel. |
other releases
• extended : limited 3" cd on roborecords
• edito on grain
of sound
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