the decline effect
by jim haynes
Walter Campbell
Walter Campbell
Perhaps my favorite Helen Scarsdale release. While dissimilar in sound, Haynes’ opus reminds me of Nurse With Wound’s Surveillance Lounge in that there are few points of harshness in between sprawling sides of ambient bliss you can get lost in or enjoy as background noise.
Favorite track: ashes.
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Layer by layer, atom by atom, Jim Haynes slowly exhales his high-oxidized and corroding breath on any sound crossing his path, reshaping drones and field recordings into abrasive soundscapes from the antiverse.
Bleak, mineral and sterile, each piece from The Decline Effect is an ode to a multidimensional sonic disintegration, leading to inside-out microcosms of white noises folded on radioactive textures.
Abstract and hardly accessible, this album implodes into an evidence and a necessity. Favorite track: ashes.
Bleak, mineral and sterile, each piece from The Decline Effect is an ode to a multidimensional sonic disintegration, leading to inside-out microcosms of white noises folded on radioactive textures.
Abstract and hardly accessible, this album implodes into an evidence and a necessity. Favorite track: ashes.
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ashes
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terminal
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half-life
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cold
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about
parapsychology introduced the notion of the decline effect as a statistical phenomenon of diminishing results whilst investigating extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. where initial findings might substantiate proof of such abilities, further studies would almost always demonstrate the contrary. as such, this ontological disappearing act stands in allegorical parallel to the entropic art of jim haynes and frames his 2011 opus of the corroded drone and a compacted disintegration of sound.
this san francisco bay area artist has long defined his work through the pithy phrase: "i rust things." the decline effect continues his investigations with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. haynes composes through all of these sources through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether they be textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic. here, embers foretelling a nuclear winter gently waft upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and / or digital patch authored by christian fennesz. on the decline effect, haynes' broken minimalism orbits somewhere near the work joe colley, the hafler trio, nurse with wound, and bj nilsen.
this san francisco bay area artist has long defined his work through the pithy phrase: "i rust things." the decline effect continues his investigations with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. haynes composes through all of these sources through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether they be textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic. here, embers foretelling a nuclear winter gently waft upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and / or digital patch authored by christian fennesz. on the decline effect, haynes' broken minimalism orbits somewhere near the work joe colley, the hafler trio, nurse with wound, and bj nilsen.
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released September 20, 2011
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helen scarsdale California
post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop,
obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.
no demos accepted. full demo policy explained here: helenscarsdale.com/about.htm
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