Tribes by ARCHITECT

《Tribes》是ARCHITECT在Metasonar的第二次发行，同时也是他的首张Techno专辑。专辑收录了六首Techno作品和两首氛围作品，延续了他一贯粗粝、抽象且自省的音乐风格。

每首名为“Dogma”的作品仅由五个音轨构成，并在每个音轨上使用相同的效果器。所有声音都经过精心设计，相互契合，组成一个声音库，为灵活多变的现场演出提供支撑。这种自我设限不仅保持了风格的一致性，也让“Dogma”的字面含义在音乐中得到呼应。

专辑的主题依旧延续了他对人类世和人类生存状况的思考，深入探讨了部落主义中人类行为的恒常性。作为人类繁衍的基石，领土成为我们认同与捍卫的对象。基于这些认同演化出的不同教条，逐渐分化出不同的部落，形成各异的社会。

整张专辑中重复的律动和仪式般的氛围象征着教条或对超越的追索。而在不可避免的熵增面前，这一切努力，犹如西西弗斯般徒劳却执着的循环。


"Tribes" is ARCHITECT's second release on Metasonar and his first Techno album. The album includes six techno tracks and two ambient pieces, continuing his consistently rough, abstract, and introspective musical style.

Each piece titled "Dogma" uses only five audio tracks and the same effects on each one. All the sounds were designed to fit together and form a library, later to be used in live performances with flexible structures. These self-imposed limitations not only maintain a consistent general style but also echo the literal meaning of "Dogma."

Thematically, the album continues his reflections on the Anthropocene and the human condition, exploring the invariability of human behavior within tribalism. Territory, as the foundation of human reproduction, becomes the object we defend and identify with. Based on these identifications, different dogmas evolve, gradually differentiating into various tribes and forming distinct societies.

The album's repetitive rhythms and ritualistic atmosphere symbolize dogmas or the pursuit of transcendence. Yet, these efforts are like Sisyphus' futile toil in the face of inevitable entropy.

I am interested in addressing the paradox of being out of the nature and at the same time hopelessly in it. The artistic approach to the existential investigations on time, space, contingency, nothingness, biological life, decay and death, is a legit and seductive approach from our position of condemned conscious beings.