Athary NLX by Roland Kayn

Kayn’s fascination with surfing the radio waves is far from unique among 20th century musicians, but rarely do the ebb and flow of modulated/demodulated drift fit so beautifully into a composer’s modus operandi. ‘Athary NLX’ finds him spellbound by several distinct plundered excerpts; do these betray an interest and enthusiasm for contemporary sounds, or simply for the process of remixing which emerged while he was operating at a remove from the musical cultures that spawned it? Can tapping these frequencies today serve to rewrite that history?

"The mystery, the grace, the boundless invention – Kayn’s machine music is a vast catalogue of very human wonder." -The Guardian

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