and/OAR is very happy to present the perfect follow-up to Canadian sound artist S.
Arden Hill's wonderful work featured on the 3-way split release with Nibo and Vend
published by 12k / Line. On Fade With Consequence, Arden paints snow canvases
with the radiant warm rays of the sun never far away.
Arden Hill's wonderful work featured on the 3-way split release with Nibo and Vend
published by 12k / Line. On Fade With Consequence, Arden paints snow canvases
with the radiant warm rays of the sun never far away.
artist: DUUL_DRV
title: Fade With Consequence
catalog number: and/11
release year: 2003
format: CDR
status: sold out
title: Fade With Consequence
catalog number: and/11
release year: 2003
format: CDR
status: sold out
IGLOO (MARCH 2004)
* * * * 1/2 Winnepeg's Duul_Drv (S. Arden Hill) has refreshed the screen of
microtones and brought a garden-fresh variety to the contemporary minimal
electronics composition forum. Fade With Consequence contains the natural
sounds many take for granted, those under our feet and in the air, true organic
happenstance. Dedicating this to the loving memory of a relative, there is the
sense of conjuring an elegy to the elements in their honor. Also a painter, Hill's
editing play is surely in union with any brush he wields. I liked his work with
Aperstaatje and 12k/Line - but this has a quintessential intimacy - as if I am right
there in the space, maybe even making the noise myself. Fade With Consequence
is, to say simply, rapturous. Dedicated to perhaps some of Hill's influences and
proto-peers is the vibrantly invisible "Blue On Day (for Chartier, Gunter, and
Roden)". As I listen closely, I am recalling experiences of listening to the field
recordings of both j.frede and Seth Nehil. But Duul_Drv makes the spoken tongues
of the earth, air and various growths a digital transfer, leaving only the outer
shavings of the original outdoor scene behind and replicating it in the studio. This
is like a tapestry of static electricity that tries hard to remain inaudible; a bit
challenging, but effective enough to keep the ears pricked for its 40 plus minutes.
(TJ Norris)
* * * * 1/2 Winnepeg's Duul_Drv (S. Arden Hill) has refreshed the screen of
microtones and brought a garden-fresh variety to the contemporary minimal
electronics composition forum. Fade With Consequence contains the natural
sounds many take for granted, those under our feet and in the air, true organic
happenstance. Dedicating this to the loving memory of a relative, there is the
sense of conjuring an elegy to the elements in their honor. Also a painter, Hill's
editing play is surely in union with any brush he wields. I liked his work with
Aperstaatje and 12k/Line - but this has a quintessential intimacy - as if I am right
there in the space, maybe even making the noise myself. Fade With Consequence
is, to say simply, rapturous. Dedicated to perhaps some of Hill's influences and
proto-peers is the vibrantly invisible "Blue On Day (for Chartier, Gunter, and
Roden)". As I listen closely, I am recalling experiences of listening to the field
recordings of both j.frede and Seth Nehil. But Duul_Drv makes the spoken tongues
of the earth, air and various growths a digital transfer, leaving only the outer
shavings of the original outdoor scene behind and replicating it in the studio. This
is like a tapestry of static electricity that tries hard to remain inaudible; a bit
challenging, but effective enough to keep the ears pricked for its 40 plus minutes.
(TJ Norris)
VITAL WEEKLY (OCTOBER 2003)
If you thought that the label and/OAR was mostly about field recordings (such as
on their phonography compilations), then these two [this and the Andrew Duke
release] prove you right and wrong. Right, in the way that these use field
recordings in some way, but they are processed to a certain extent, and not
presented as clear, unprocessed events. Work by Duul_Drv, aka S. Arden Hill, was
previously available on 12k/Line and here presents material along similar lines.
Duul_Drv does what some denounce as "laptop ambient" (and they don't mean it
in a very positive way): sparsely orchestrated software synth lines, with occasional
and likewise sparse clicks. At times a deep bass thump. Bits of field recordings zip
through the mass of ambient sounds. It's altogether a nice release, maybe a bit on
the safe side of things, not aiming for something radically new, but operating in a
safe genre that microsound can be. (Frans de Waard)
If you thought that the label and/OAR was mostly about field recordings (such as
on their phonography compilations), then these two [this and the Andrew Duke
release] prove you right and wrong. Right, in the way that these use field
recordings in some way, but they are processed to a certain extent, and not
presented as clear, unprocessed events. Work by Duul_Drv, aka S. Arden Hill, was
previously available on 12k/Line and here presents material along similar lines.
Duul_Drv does what some denounce as "laptop ambient" (and they don't mean it
in a very positive way): sparsely orchestrated software synth lines, with occasional
and likewise sparse clicks. At times a deep bass thump. Bits of field recordings zip
through the mass of ambient sounds. It's altogether a nice release, maybe a bit on
the safe side of things, not aiming for something radically new, but operating in a
safe genre that microsound can be. (Frans de Waard)
E / I MAGAZINE (WINTER / SPRING 2006)
Microsound fashion is chronically guilty of relying on metaphors of snow and ice,
a sangfroid pose that uses minimalism to conveniently hijack romance without the
vulnerability of explicit sentimentality. However, the Winnipeg winter pieces that
are duul_drv's Fade With Consequence, a collection of treated field recordings,
pack twice the sublimated humidity and thaw one expects from a Canadian
phonographic composer whose pieces nominally reference "Hoarfrost On Trees"
in "-40 C." While wearing the equally-icy duul_drv ("dual drive") moniker, S. Arden
Hill's music enlists not the air of cyber-stoic snowy environs, but the human
responses engendered by them: the behaviors of winter campers in self-reliant,
kinetic quietude. Each track here is light, bird-boned but giddy, teeming with life.
Some sound marks irritate when they veer off toward inorganic self-referentiality
("medium as message" has little to offer in this context). However, Hill has a poet's
knack for creating wonder via naturalism and narrative occlusion, wrapping
listeners in well-crafted Wikiups that retain body heat in the sub-arctic half-light,
lending solid tools for blind navigation. (William S. Fields)
Microsound fashion is chronically guilty of relying on metaphors of snow and ice,
a sangfroid pose that uses minimalism to conveniently hijack romance without the
vulnerability of explicit sentimentality. However, the Winnipeg winter pieces that
are duul_drv's Fade With Consequence, a collection of treated field recordings,
pack twice the sublimated humidity and thaw one expects from a Canadian
phonographic composer whose pieces nominally reference "Hoarfrost On Trees"
in "-40 C." While wearing the equally-icy duul_drv ("dual drive") moniker, S. Arden
Hill's music enlists not the air of cyber-stoic snowy environs, but the human
responses engendered by them: the behaviors of winter campers in self-reliant,
kinetic quietude. Each track here is light, bird-boned but giddy, teeming with life.
Some sound marks irritate when they veer off toward inorganic self-referentiality
("medium as message" has little to offer in this context). However, Hill has a poet's
knack for creating wonder via naturalism and narrative occlusion, wrapping
listeners in well-crafted Wikiups that retain body heat in the sub-arctic half-light,
lending solid tools for blind navigation. (William S. Fields)
