Watch Visible Cloaks’ “Terrazzo (Ft. Motion Graphics)” Video:
The US electronic duo Visible Cloaks will release their Reassemblage LP on February 17th via RVNG. The label reports that the LP is named after Trin T Minha-ha‘s 1982 16mm film of the same name. The Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor has stated that her film Reassemblage, which was filmed in Senegal, questions the notion of ethnographic authority while seeking “not to speak about/just speak nearby” its’ cultural subject matter.
Using “chance operations, MIDI “translation,” and other generative principles”, Visible Cloaks’ members Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile continue the kind of ambient explorations they first demonstrated in their Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo mixtape series, which Doran has described as “investigations into Fourth World undercurrents in Japanese ambient and pop music, years 1980–1986”. “Terrazzo“, which features the NY-based electronic musician Motion Graphics, comes complete with plenty of drift and it creates the kind of environment where the familiar sounds strange and the strange sounds familiar leading to a deterritorialized sonic tour of East/West sound strategy. Portland artist Brenna Murphy returns to provide the visuals here and she floats oddly familiar architectural structures across cloudy beds of billowing blue to echo Visible Cloaks’ exquisite sense of drift.
