PUBLIC DETAIL by the concept horse
Operating since the late 2010s, Vienna-based sound artist the concept horse has quietly amassed a distinctive and diverse discography, drawing inspiration from the rich traditions of musique concrète, noise, plunderphonics, microsound, and free improvisation. “Public Detail” follows releases on labels such as FALT and czaszka [rec.], as well as the artist’s own eë editions, and neatly encapsulates the polyglottic breadth of the project. Patinaed piano loops and wistful ambience give way to chance percussion environments, beat research, and treated location recordings, resulting in a suite of evasive and diffuse music informed by dialectics such as repetition/unrepeatability and formal rigor/chaos.
“A door space to further diagrams, white on blue, a window.”
Tracklist
| 1. | flashlight out | 3:20 |
| 2. | start with a problem | 4:51 |
| 3. | pecky kernels | 2:55 |
| 4. | public detail | 1:07 |
| 5. | do things with words | 4:41 |
| 6. | wasserkosten iii | 1:16 |
| 7. | photostable | 1:27 |
| 8. | dingvorlesungen | 1:05 |
| 9. | proximity naming | 4:07 |
| 10. | ghost means lamb | 2:48 |
| 11. | erfolgsschrott i | 3:18 |
| 12. | sell this version | 2:31 |
| 13. | non-violet | 1:22 |
| 14. | brand new descriptions | 5:46 |
Credits
recorded and arranged in vienna, austria between 2021-2023.
35mm photograph taken by the concept horse.
risograph print and cover design by marie vermont.
mastered by angelo harmsworth.
License
All rights reserved.
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