Visual music for minimal installations

As always NSN presents me with a cornucopia of sound and rhythm combinations that seem to have the potential to run a dictionary dry of descriptives. A recognised talent (and a lovely guy) this album is no different. Plus my two youngest children are singing along with it, so conditions apply as always. Anyway, it fits into my semiotic model of communication! Infinite variables.

I think with this album, as with other works, there is always a lot going on and an immense sense of variety, i.e. many variables in conception and therefore, reception. It is sheer, magnificent, beauty in musical forms, reflecting lifes rich tapestry like no other artist, that I have ventured to listen to, does.

A true voyage into sound manipulation, with its peaks and troughs, both wonderfully viable in terms of listening and enjoying the beautiful creative conjunctions. With seventeen nodes in the system, I suppose it is comparatively a minimal installation, but the OpSys is a genius.

As nodes work, some are busier than others, some lead nowhere even. N.2. and N.5 stand out in the crowd. N.6 has a wonderful atmosphere. However, it all blends nicely together in the beauty of its creation, it is literally a listening experience, multi-media with a minimal lean on technology itself. NSN always provokes my mind into action, as do other artists, but the man has a very unique talent at translating the world and encapsulating it into a musical form that can be shared so gracefully.

Un lavoro interessante. Se lo scopo è la rapprentazione teatrale credo che l'obiettivo è stato raggiunto. A me è piaciuta molto la sequenza delle singole composizioni che effettivamente si muovono in un vasto ambito musicale e creano un flusso sonoro sempre vivo. Alcuni brani riescono a portare immagini alla mente con più forza.. ma tutto è sospeso dentro un noise che può essere morbido o un pò aspro. E' un album da ascoltare molte volte per cogliere le sue particolarità. Le melodie nascono improvvise emergendo sullo sfondo del noise.... altre volte è il noise a creare la melodia .... nel suo disperato tentativo di essere vita. Al giusto volume audio è anche un viaggio onirico. Questa recensione è anche qui: http://suonolibero.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/noise-sound-nation-visual-music-for-minimal-installations-i-experience-of-my-dreams/

An interesting work. If the aim is to represent the theatrical believe that the objective was reached. I really enjoyed the sequence of individual compositions that actually move into a vast musical flow and create a sound living. Some songs can bring to mind images with more force .. but everything is suspended inside a noise that can be soft or slightly scathing. It's an album to listen many times to seize its particularity. The melodies are born suddenly emerging in the background noise .... sometimes the noise to create the melody .... in his desperate attempt to be life. It's also a dreamlike journey.