Ben Chatwin - The Hum on CD

Description

The hum is chatwin's sixth solo album of experimental electronic music under his own name and his eleventh in total. It amplifies the hidden frequencies that swirl invisibility around us in the air all the time but which most of us never hear, including the 50Hz hum of the power grid that producers will know all too well from the studio, but is almost undetectable to the human ear. "There are so many sounds around us that are lower and higher than we can hear," Ben says. "I wanted to make it all audible." Taking inspiration from Mika vainio's physical sound worlds and Johann johannsson's immersive soundtracks, the hum's emotive accumulations and caustic textures form dense stratas, with strings and analogue synths harnessed as melodic anchor points among electric storms of pulsating sound.

Tracks

1 Transmission
2 Transistor
3 Creep Strain
4 Snow Crash
5 War Of The Ants
6 Interference
7 The Hum
8 Ghost In The Machine