Soda Gong bringen gerade eine neue LP des für seine Filmmusik und seine Soundarbeit für verschiedene Medien bekannten New Yorker Musikers und Klangtüftlers James Emrick heraus. Auf “Actoma” arbeitet er mit einer Vielzahl meist digitaler Klangquellen und Effekten: “He utilizes an array of granular and feedback processes within Max/MSP environments to arrive at an idiosyncratic form of computer music that feels willfully opposed to operating within the sediments of the genre. Techniques such as real-time granulation of samples, Shepard

tones, grain diffusion, and complex windowing allow Emrick to dramatize his source material in fascinating ways, and each moment of Actoma teems with widescreen textural allure. Perhaps Emrick’s greatest accomplishment is creating a music that remains rigorously committed to severe levels of abstraction while avoiding sterility and coldness entirely. It is a strange and otherworldly landscape indeed, but there is a consciousness there to perceive and record it”. (Soda Gong)