- Minimalism
- Microtonal
- Avant-garde
- Drone
- Microsound
- Abstract
- Space music
- Non-music
- Experimentalism
- Sound art
Comment:
behind the project Thuuoom is a sonic experimentalist Tuomo from
Finland who has been issuing his music since 2008 under his own
imprint Textural Healing. In the meantime I was quite worried because
of having had no releases by the artist for a while. However, in the
recent year he has issued four outings so far. The three-track Aste
EP is one of them clocking in at a 28 minute. Technically it is a
little bit different than his previous ones because on it he operates
with an acoustic guitar and an Elka Consolette organ. Previously
Tuomo had been relying on such proper and non-proper instruments as
music boxes, plastic bags, wine glasses, acoustic guitars, toy
pianos, faucet, elevator, kettles, coin, contact microphone,
balalaika, bottles, human voice, midi, whistles, Excel (!), electric
guitars, dices, shelves, tables etc. Later on, of course, he mixed
them up into solid electronic compositions. Back to the topic again,
partly because of that his soundscape is more restrained and buried
yet being enough abstract and stimulating at the same time. One has
to crank up the volume of his/her volume system to hear exquisite
nuances coming out from there. By listening to such sort of music I
cannot bypass the comparison with a space rocket flying in a very
remote distance from Earth being totally alone and seeming like a
very small dot in an immense space while emitting such sort of sound
being barely hearable on the outing. First of all, the recent issue
is all about the shapes of microscopic waves, which used to drone at
different frequencies. At times it is more bass-drenched, at times
more demonstrating lighter tones. In fact, it is the most austere and
minimal issue I have heard by the artist and because of that I needed
more listening times to get related to it in a more close manner. In
a sense, it is more mathematics than music, just being a physical
representation of sounds. It is not post-psychedelic electronica and forestelektro anymore. On the other side, it is said on the page
of the release that these tracks were conceived during the Kaiut
Sessions, another issue, but did not fit on the said album. By my
opinion, to understand these compositions better it would be better
to listen to Kaiut additionally as well.