Vernaculars by QNDFK

This album was the beginning of a new mode (which has morphed into my current ___ bpm material) - about motion and movement, trying to find a way to let Parkinson’s be central to the music making process after the initial piece, “Malfunction Unlimited” from a couple years back. It’s kind of tricky because it’s not supposed to be a direct representation. If it was, it would be some instance of spasmodic, frantic chopped up distorted noise and would have to be intentionally unpleasant to hear. The ideas are put here in the context of electronic music/techno and this album uses a kind of futile escapist meditation on what the movements are, acting as a basis for how the tracks are composed - not regarding definitions or specific manifestations or any emotional state. For me, the sounds on this album are all densities and shapes (“dancing about [brutalist] architecture”), asymmetry, space, repetition, stuckness and movement based on 'detached syncopation', by which I mean, if a beat goes 1 2 3 4, we are only hearing here the things that happen in between the numbers, these things are unmoored and become something new while the 1 2 3 4 beat disappears.
(There are a few tracks that do not adhere to this idea but they still carry the narrative forward). The first few tracks aim to establish some footing, the middle is the adaptation, the end continues on irresolutely.

Variations on drum machine & synthesizer music. Sometimes with tape loops. Sometimes atonal.
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