Art world provocateurs Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig employ the skills of CGI artist Darío Alva for a appropriately surrealist visual for their exceptionally dissonant speculative jazz salvo.
Breaking news! A thick cloud on the horizon declares a fresh attack from that notorious swarm of complimentary jazz killer bees, a brand-new task from self-described “conceptual kleptomaniac post digital complimentary jazz clothing” DRONE OPERATØR. Riding tough along the line inbetween speculative electronicdevices, smashhit noise style and the loosest jazz improvisation, this rogue’s gallery of gamers, headed up by art world provocateurs Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig, take the fevered pulse of the non-stop flattened now and note down 4 secret observations which provided together make up Welcøme To Anxiety Group, their launching release with William Markarian-Martin and Richie Culver’s imprint, Participant. Coaxing dynamic stagecraft from a continuously provoked run-in inbetween acoustic instrumentation and artificial sound, each of the task’s 4 tracks offers a brand-new pointofview on what it indicates to improvise through technological mediation. “Here we are now,” compose DRONE OPERATØR. “22 after 2k. mp4 flex to 32bit float. The sax – the heart. The quadcopter – the brain. Duo d’Allemagne not squandering a life time knowing jazz requirements.” The EP’s opening salvo, ‘Bot Møther’, launches us headlong into the terminal speed at which our faithful operators relocation, smashing together squalls of saxophone and ripples of percussion with the sounds of sci-fi weapons, like an amphetamine-fuelled, midnight jam hammered out unconcerned to an continuous alien intrusion.
CGI artist Darío Alva taps into the surrealist barrage of ‘Bot Møther’ to bring us an immediate brand-new publication, a scabrous send-up of the ridiculous phenomenon of the slow spin of brand-new cycles gushed forth from out-of-date tradition media organizations. Following a abandoner predator drone, installed with a grand piano and ran by the most speculative of artists, Alva evades rippling smoke and incendiary surges as elegant harshness and errant leaves of unlimited sheet music litter an ill-defined battleground, an broadening locus of capacity targets that extended from icy wastes, over metropolitan environments, through damp jungle, priorto eventually goingbeyond the product world, up into the stratosphere. Unravelling as an extended pastiche of modern-day day propaganda in an age of second-by-second social media discourse, a consistent overlap of livestreams and updates, as well as the modern expansion of OSINT (open-source intelligence), Alva renders rocket strikes as indiscernible from fir works, 24-hour news journalism shot through the hyper lens of a Marvel film. As our skilled pianist hammers out DRONE OPERATØR’s conceptual kleptomaniac structure on a piano both prepared and gamer, the completely inefficient instrument for such an iconoclastic sound, it endsupbeing less and less clear whether the breaking news is an impending event or an continuous termination occasion.
The plain image of a predator drone piano and pianist, the cover art for Welcøme To Anxiety Group, sets the tone for the whole job. “From renowned spamming to intellectual rubbish. Always neverever foreseeable, neverever not tacky,” Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig continue. “Battery life cycles complete of pleasure. You state you like complimentary jazz. We puton’t think you.” In both noise and image DRONE OPERATØR and Darío Alva excavate notlikely clearness from multi-sensory fight provided by the most optimum implies, selecting out a comical through line through the culture war on numerous fronts. By finding happiness in unreasonable justification, the artists turn a magnificently rendered CGI mirror on the distressed contours of their audience, finding the life-affirming joke that encapsulates both the liquifying of daily stability and the energetic reaction needed to properly identify this down spiral. This can be heard in the furtive creep for ‘German Satellite’, selected out in suggestive plucks, stuttering clacks and stretched wails, or the cacophonous gallop of ‘Røhrstøck’, on which we’re welcomed to hold on for dear life throughout a mad scramble towards the ‘The Vessel,’ a shocking series of toppling artificial chimes, decorated with peals of elaborate sax that flare up and out to brighten the track’s abnormality, atthesametime immersed and recovered through a subtle control of filters. Welcøme To Anxiety Group is a soundtrack for the frenzied, stuffed with as much problem and as much discovery as any great treatment should. “There is a German satellite falling to earth!” a lady’s voice urgently reveals. “She states, what if it strikes me? Welcome to stressandanxiety group.”
‘Bot Møther’ is taken from Welcome To Anxiety Group, which is out now on Participant. For more details about DR