Jukka-Pekka Kervinen – Expected Values (2011)

Altered State Reflections

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• Experimentalism
• Conceptual
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Contemporary classical
• Abstract music

Comment: it is time to arrive at Altered State Reflections which is led by Jared C. Balogh who is experimental musician as well. The Finnish artist Jukka-Pekka Kervinen`s 3-track issue is technically conceptual because all the tracks represented over there are subjected to algorithmic patterns though played in different instrument-based modes. More profoundly, Kurtosis is for celesta and toy piano, Monotone is for clarinet, and Population Of Size N is for flute, oboe, and viola. However, one could perceive a shitloads of turns and rapid chord changes to elevate the concept to the next, robot-alike abstract level. Despite it, paradoxically, the whole involves many progressions which seem to be somehow warm and temperate ones. Maybe it is not abstract kind of music at all? However, it could be tagged as an example of such sort of classical music being related to academic, educated music circles. In a word, it is a thought-provoking glass bead game through the sonic frequencies.

Charles Rice Goff III and Jared C. Balogh - Resonant Tableaux (2011)

Altered State Reflections

9.5

/Experimentalism, Radiophonic, Avant-pop, Indie, Experimental electronica, Folktronica, Crossover, Hauntology, Cut and paste, Free formfreakout, Space Age, Sound collage, Art pop, Avant-garde/

Comment: arrghh, undoubtedly it is a frantic set of 12 pieces which is composed of a huge array of the snippets of (mostly) vintage recording samples, commercials and elaborated sounds. Indeed, it behaves like a chameleon throughout the whole course providing many cogent changes in formation and moods. More profoundly, sometimes it chimes like a space age courier, sometimes like a brother of Dave Keifer`s Cagey House due to its haunting artful outlets, at times like a weird output of indie/folk pop, classical music and electro (which is driven by autotuned robotic vocals with tongue in cheek). Or on the other side offering up instances of buffoonish pop a la Kevin Ayers which do entertain you in a weird way as those compositions which freak out within the territory of ethnic and trance-induced progressions. It is a loveable issue which may make you go nuts.