SCHOOL by Bonie Jash
Warm Gospel 74
I’ve been crafting these collages from old cross-stitch patterns for a lot of the visual art I’ve done over the past few years. This tape’s cover is a detail shot from one of those collages. The gridwork of these old patterns always felt like some form of analog pixilation: a breakdown of individual colors into data, represented by the numbers and symbols individually marking each box of the grid.
The six abstract digital compositions that make up “SCHOOL” flow in much the same way. It’s like captured data compressed and filtered through a kaleidoscope of effects and volume sweeps. Signal drops smashed into radar blips. An entire city captured by field recordings layered on top of each other in the playback interface. It’s all texture, where rhythms are built from the negative space between maximalist walls of living noises.
