Preliminary Saturation
Staring At Empty Eyes
FORMAT: CDR
LIMITED EDITION: 40
RUNNING TIME: 29:00
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DirtyCDR 030
RELEASE DATE: May 2008
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"Suddenly it all came together. Preliminary Saturation was hard to avoid this week. This duo of Wouter Jaspers (sometimes known as Franz Fjodor) and Steffan de Turck (otherwise Staplerfahrer), both from the active forces of the Dutch city of Tilburg, were playing at Extrapool this week, and on returning home I found two of their releases.
On stage I noticed a wide range of effect boxes, mixing console, acoustic objects (including tin cans, jar lid and what appeared to be sand) and mechanical devices. Their concert started out with high pitched feedback but fared better when they started to explore the objects with contact microphones and treated the sounds with their sound effects. Both releases are alike the concert, but worked out better, even when they too seem to be live recordings.
All of the pieces last around twenty to thirty minutes. 'Staring At Empty Eyes' is slightly under thirty minutes and is more alike the concert I heard, less a noisy beginning. Here things are 'mildly' noisy at the beginning with rotating sounds (mechanical objects on surfaces?) which gradually goes down in volume but cranks up in frequency. Once arrived in the area of a few crackles they built up their sound and end up with much noise."