It’s splitsville for Personal Archives: Daniel Ryan
and Matthew Crowe drop some improv upon us, experimenting with the sonic limits
of their …
Wait. I think I wrote that already somewhere. That’s
really weird.
Know what else is really weird? This split tape from
Daniel Ryan and Matthew Crowe! I was sold right away with Ryan’s side (and not
merely because he has a, ahem, STELLAR last name), as he’s whipped up ten short
tracks that do their thing and quickly move on to the next. Whether he’s
exploring drones or intricate rhythms or scratched noise, Ryan obviously is
having fun with his experimentation. It’s nice to see a little brevity in the
experimental tape game at times.
And then there’s Matthew Crowe, Sex Funeralist and
drum dude who plays here with similarly disparate elements in an ADD manner,
only over the course of three tracks instead of ten. On his first composition,
which lasts six minutes and is by far the longest track on the tape, he shifts
between electronics and rhythm, using the former to disrupt and the latter to
form a trancelike pattern. Frustrating our expectations, he both hypnotizes us
and shakes us from our stupor. He continues this throughout the other two
shorter tracks on his side, and the combined whole is a fascinating event.
--Ryan
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