Holly Herndon

Movement & Chorus (2012) ...

Debut album and EP from electronic music artist from San Francisco...

Breathe ... 

Dilato (soundcloud - baritone Bruce Rameker) ... 

The rightful hype about composer Holly Herndon is that she skips along the often-broad line between academic and accessible electronica-- that is, the music on her proper debut, Movement, suits a club as much as a classroom. On "Fade", for instance, she lattices complex vocal layers around a beat with a verifiably big bottom-end. "Dilato," the record's final piece, forces the issue with a completely unimaginable scheme, as baritone vocalist Bruce Rameker-- himself a classical crossover singer, having worked not only with direct Herndon predecessor Meredith Monk but also with conservatories and operas across the world-- intones the word "dilato," meaning to extend or dilate... pitchfork.com

Chorus (EP) ... 

For "Chorus," Herndon "sampled her daily browsing experience," using a software patch that recorded snippets of audio coming from her web browser and throw them together. The result is an anarchic jumble of sounds—pristine chords, garbled scraps of percussion and, of course, lots of voices, re-pitched and layered to form the titular ensemble. Its jump-cut logic and fleeting moments of static gorgeousness bring to mind Oneohtrix Point Never's recent R Plus Seven. But rather than presenting these sounds as abstract delights, Herndon wrings a song from them, a jumpy electro pop number that's propelled by its dense arrangement. As a conceptual exercise it's as striking as anything on Movement; as a piece of music it's quite a bit better... residentadvisor.net ...

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