wetloop by WISEFAKE

♫ wetloop is WISEFAKE's fourth full-length album. Recorded in 2022, the album was inspired by a daytime trip to Rouge National Urban Park in Toronto. The park's complex and diverse terrain and interwoven landforms inspired WISEFAKE to use the four main trails as the basis for each track. He mimics the interactions between rivers, land, and sky with intricate sound design, providing listeners with a broad sensory canvas. wetloop showcases WISEFAKE's keen observation of nature and his exceptional skill in handling complex sound materials. The album cover was photographed by Alice He in Toronto.

♫ Victor Zuo is a producer based in Toronto and one-half of the electronic duo Wanderlust. WISEFAKE is Zuo’s solo project, launched in 2016, featuring the graphic works of designer Alice He. Compared to Wanderlust's song-oriented approach, WISEFAKE explores new equipment and ideas with an electronic music mindset. During the creation of wetloop, Zuo insisted on using hardware for sound collection, effect processing, and mixing, only using software for final editing, overdubbing, and exporting. This tactile approach to composing blurs the line between "manual performance" and "generative music", encouraging both the creator and the listener to focus more on the "sound" elements, echoing WISEFAKE's creative principle since 2022: sound is music.


♫ 《wetloop》是WISEFAKE的第四张全长专辑，录制于2022年，创作源自他在多伦多Rouge国家公园的日间游览。公园地形复杂多样，地貌交织，WISEFAKE取其中四条主要小径为灵感材料，在听觉世界模拟了河流、土地与天空之间错综复杂的交互，为听众提供了宽广的感知幕布。《wetloop》不仅体现了WISEFAKE对自然敏锐的观察力，还展现了他处理复杂声音素材时卓越的掌控力。专辑封面由Alice He摄于多伦多。

♫ 制作人左瑋现居多伦多，是电子二人组Wanderlust的成员，WISEFAKE是他在2016年启动的个人项目，由左瑋负责音乐部分，设计师Alice He负责概念与平面艺术部分。相比Wanderlust的歌曲属性，WISEFAKE更多地以电子音乐的思维探索新设备和新想法。延续他的上一张专辑《strati》，左瑋在创作《wetloop》时坚持用硬件采集声音、处理效果并混音，仅在最终编辑、叠轨和导出时使用DAW。这种可触摸的创作方式模糊了“手动演奏”与“生成音乐”之间的界限，让创作者和听众都更关注“声音”本身，呼应了WISEFAKE自2022年以来的创作基调：声音即音乐。

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