‘Impulsion’ delivers a strikingly abstract and intense listening experience, the sort of aural tunnel that aids escapism and hypnosis. Yet it’s offered to us here in a rather friendly format: six minutes of pure noisy bliss, part harmonic and part textural. Behind such a leftfield record, we find Brussels-based producer and creative After Geometry. It probably won’t be a surprise to learn that he’s a classically trained musician who then pivoted towards electronic and electroacoustic music, especially within the experimental field.
Delving deeper into the record and the creative process that surrounds it, After Geometry explains: “This project started when I bought a handful of old cassette recorders and dictaphones on Reverb and Etsy and began experimenting with them… running material from Logic in and out of the machines, capturing their mechanics with contact mics, and coaxing various textures out of the process. I approach these sounds in a fairly abstract way, steering clear of anything too overtly nostalgic, as I didn’t want to make ‘that’ kind of lo‑fi/tape‑focused music (no hate intended at all).”
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