Just got this CD (street date is mid November) it's like hearing the earth crack open while a thunderstorm proceeds to develop overhead - very charged sounds got to see him perform sometime in my life
here's the press release (and what is printed on the inside of the CD packaging): "Signal to Noise" came to life during a session with one of my favorite instruments, the Yamaha SY77. The SY77 can produce timbres that slowly change and mutate via FM synthesis, and recordings of these sounds formed the basis for what was to evolve into "Signal to Noise." The recordings mainly consisted of harmonic droning, so I found them to be a bit boring after extensive listening. I began filtering, pitch-shifting and processing the material using granular resynthesis, aiming to achieve erosion and diffusion of the sound while preserving some of the original movements. The signal became the noise." "Studies of Thunder" is a fascinating sonic sculpture that creates an atmosphere of energy and tension while at the same time being quiet and introverted. The sonic artifacts were created mainly by feeding short pulses of filtered noise into a complex network of granular delay lines. No natural recordings were used as source material - this is a completely artificial world.
