Search - K. Leimer :: Degraded Certainties

With his ninth album, Leimer continues to experiment in generating variety from a limited set of elements. In this case, extensively manipulated audio files; layered elements combined from multiple versions of shared sources; edited, reshaped envelopes and extended periods of dust collecting resulted in six pieces of minimalist / process music. Layered by systematic reordering of differing tone clusters at differing durations in turn articulated by differing voices degraded certainties uses signal reprocessing as the principal technique in determining the music s timbre and form. Ranging in temper from the elegiac "hommage" to the switch-state "angoisse" and the referential "allotropy", degraded certainties sets aside the typical concerns of drone and ambient by emphasizing fuller contrasts and shifts in character set in a deeply detailed soundfield. Additional voices, mix and mastering by Taylor Deupree.