[microsound-announce] Autistici - Amplified Presence : Out Now on Home Normal

[David Newman]

I'm very proud to announce that Home Normal have released my next album -
Amplified Presence. I hope you enjoy & thank you for your support & if you
have the time and inclination let me know what you think.
Home Normal Release Page:
http://www.homenormal.com/releases/autistici-amplified-presence
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Reviews & Videos @ Autistici:
http://www.autistici.com/amplified-presence.htm
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THE MILK FACTORY REVIEW



Following releases on 12K, Keshhhhhh Recordings and his own Audiobulb
imprint, David Newman has settled down at Home 

Normal for his third album proper. Right from Volume Objects, released over
three years ago, Newman has worked at creating 

incredibly detailed miniature soundscapes from field recordings and
electronics, and, while the Detached Metal Voice and Slow 

Temperature collections of early material released last year showcased quite
a different side of his work, this is once again the 

feature of Amplified Presence.



Over the course of this album, Newman expands quite drastically on the
concept he developed on both Volume Object and 

Complex Tone Test by refining it much further. He has a knack for creating
extremely detailed and intricate soundscapes and 

making them sound so extremely effortless and effective, simply by wrapping
them in beautifully crafted little melodies, and he 

does so with brio here. Whether it is with the gentle atmospheric tones of
Automated Night Light, the bleep-heavy Attachment 

Type or the harder edge of Tower Location, melodies are at the heart of his
compositions, and binds them together. But it is 

ultimately with sound that he is most at ease. While deeply electronic,
there is something quite pastoral and organic about this 

whole album, in part thanks to the way he processes acoustic sounds and
field recordings into his compositions and incorporating 

them into his sonic palette by maintaining most of their natural aspect, yet
often using them in unusual ways. 



Newman creates here a fascinating world built around dreamy soundscapes,
some so utterly delicate and fragile that they threaten 

to shatter at the tiniest sparks of density (Automated Night Light, A Bed Of
Powdered Glass, Field13), other sturdier (Sixteenth, 

Slow Rotor Sensory Loop) and more playful (A Religion Of Water And Air,
Attachment Type, Tower Location). Each piece is like a 

self-contained universe, with its own set of climates, sonic spaces and
tones, sometimes deployed into a succession of tiny vignettes 

which, although appearing to work independently from each other, are in fact
intricately linked. This is perhaps most obvious on A 

Religion Of Water And Air or Tower Location, where their respective various
sections are clearly distinct, but this is found elsewhere 

on the record albeit in much more subtle forms.



Amplified Presence has however a very strong sonic identity of its own, and
one that is very consistent throughout. This has alway 

been one of Newman's strength with his records, yet it feels as this is
taken to an entirely new level here. If Newman calls upon a 

vast sound palette for this album, he is careful to retain an overall feel
for the entire album. As a result, this is undoubtedly his 

most accomplished and impressive record to date, and definitely one not to
miss.  BOOMKAT REVIEW



Deft, detailed electronica from David Newman's Autistici project, probably
one of Home Normal's finest releases this year. 'Amplified 

Presence' is a fine study on space and placement, using a menagries of sound
objects - piano, cracklebox, mellotron, cutlery, violin, 

field recordings, vocals and much more - to create cutely kinetic spaces
filled with naif melodies and scuttling, strangely organic 

rhythms which use every inch and angle of his sound sphere in imaginative
ways.
 
 

David Newman

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