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P028X

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-15

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Kudos

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5050580723863

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Artist

Curtis Roads

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Classical

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Presto!?

Presto!? is an esteemed music label based in Milan, Italy. With a passion for curating exceptional musical experiences, the label is expertly guided by Lorenzo Senni. As a renowned artist himself, Senni brings his extensive knowledge and expertise to ensure that only the finest quality music reaches your ears.

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" Beneath the level of the note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles. Microsonic particles remained invisible for centuries. Recent technological advances let us probe and explore the beauties of this formerly unseen world. "
P!?028 is the reissue of the seminal Point Line Cloud album by Curtis Roads, 15 years after its original publication on Asphodel. Each piece here revels in the microscopic level of sound that Roads discusses in his book Microsound. He devises rich textures by exploring relationships between tiny sonic shards, juxtaposed, layered and manipulated on the minutest of timescales. If this all sounds terse and scientific, you're right, and wrong, as Roads is equally competent in the theoretical and artistic domains. Often cited by Autechre as an influence on their work, his music doesn't share the grid-oriented rhythmic approach of his more widely known admirers. It does, however, have a level of sophisticated immediacy and dynamism seldom heard in the realm of abstract electronic music. Each track breathes with the vitality of the most assured improvising percussionist. While bound to esoteric processes, "Point Line Cloud" is amongst the most vibrant and sensuous accomplishments of the post-musique concrète canon.
Notes on the 2019 edition
I am pleased to present this reissue of POINT LINE CLOUD. The material was originally released as a CD + DVD by Asphodel Ltd., San Francisco in February 2005. It was the first DVD released by the company. To showcase their new product, Asphodel asked us to pack POINT LINE CLOUD with content. This we did: 13 tracks on the CD plus 10 tracks on the DVD. In addition, the CD had five PDF texts including a complete graphic score of Half life, part I: Sonal atoms, realized by James Ingram. The DVD had bonus features including visualizations by Woon Seung Yeo and Garry Kling, a lecture on Half life, and the complete granular synthesis study Prototype, which I realized in 1975. The design and production of the POINT LINE CLOUD package took almost two years. For this production we decided to split the material. We include all the original audio and video tracks on the CD and DVD, but the POINT LINE CLOUD bonus material is now on my website.
All music published by Curtis Roads (ASCAP)
Visuals by Brian O'Reilly
Bubble chamber image of a collision of a high-energy neutrino particle with the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, courtesy of CERN, Switzerland. Reworked by BLAHO for this reissue.
Design by Peter Segerstrom, BLAHO and Ruben Spini
Cat. No. P!?028
℗ & © Presto!? 2019

Point Line Cloud

Music GB

Discover Point Line Cloud by Curtis Roads. Reissued by Presto!?, this seminal album explores the realm of microsound with rich textures and sophisticated immediacy. Available in various formats.