{"id":4707,"date":"2015-07-25T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2015-07-25T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:54:02","slug":"review-mirror-neurons-der-touching-extremes-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=4707","title":{"rendered":"review – mirror neurons (DER) – touching extremes – Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mirror Neurons on DER<\/a>
\nCD + Digital \u2013 500<\/p>\n

Release Date<\/b> April 21, 2015
\n<\/span>Cover<\/b> xx+xy visual<\/p>\n

Bonus Video<\/b><\/p>\n

All orders through DER\u2019s Bandcamp<\/a> will receive an\u00a0excerpt of Mirror Neurons.
\n<\/span>Visuals :<\/b> \u00a0xx+xy visuals<\/b>\u00a0
\n<\/span>Sound :<\/b> France Jobin and Fabio Perletta<\/p>\n

I have a love\/hate relationship with the integration of microsounds and stillness; am highly distrustful when neuroscience is utilized to improve pseudo-intellectual formulas which, most frequently, are nothing but containers of deplorably ignorant esoteric commonplaces, good only to fill one\u2019s mouth in absence of veritable kernels. And, in the last years, I also have reinforced my theory about installations and background soundtracks symbolizing \u2013 more often than not \u2013 a dense fog hiding out-and-out artistic poverty.<\/p>\n

Having said that, my curmudgeonly attitude was successfully fought by Jobin and Perletta\u2019s long-distance collaboration. More to the point, the pair produced an admirable example of psychoacoustic exploration able to generate stimulating suggestions while eliciting the kind of retroactive synthesis performed by the brain in the presence of a given combination of sounds. A somewhat restricted palette of extremely sharp frequencies, digital noise, subsonic pulsation and diverse representations of quietude is finely exploited over the course of three tracks. Each segment is incisive and soothing at once, never falling into the \u201csnug ambient\u201d trap. The Canadian and the Italian have really done their homework (pun unintended).<\/p>\n

Had I to give a lone reason to justify this CD\u2019s effectiveness, the answer would probably lie in its blend of surgical precision and reminiscent profoundness. The merging of fixed tones enhanced by computer processing elicits a peculiar magnetism: trance, sure, and \u201cthat\u201d inscrutable regret, almost tangible in sections of \u201cMimesis\u201d and \u201cParallel\u201d. The central chapter \u201cReflection\u201d is perceived as a mere reassuring texture at first; then, after a nearly silent transition, organ-like pitches (think of the intro to Pink Floyd\u2019s \u201cUs And Them\u201d, stretched and with less harmonic movement) lull us into a comfort zone inevitably destined to vanish.<\/p>\n

Put this one on repeat play: it\u2019s worth hours of implicit analysis, while the mechanisms of internal composure get efficiently lubricated.<\/p>\n

Massimo Ricci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mirror Neurons on DER CD + Digital \u2013 500 Release Date April 21, 2015 Cover xx+xy visual Bonus Video All orders through DER\u2019s Bandcamp will receive an\u00a0excerpt of Mirror Neurons. Visuals : \u00a0xx+xy visuals\u00a0 Sound : France Jobin and Fabio Perletta I have a love\/hate relationship with the integration of microsounds and stillness; am highly … <\/p>\n

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