uva ...........

A lovely and involving little piece by the incomparable Seth Nehil. It sounds like some ceramic objects (perhaps like the ones pictured on the cover?) being lightly tapped for 20 minutes and layered over itself, at once eventless and absorbing. It's not a drone, rather it's active on a small scale, in its own understated way. I won't try anymore to guess at how the sounds were produced (that's a terrible way to listen, isn't it?), I'll just tell you how much I enjoy the piece. I enjoy it quite a bit.
- www.brainwashed.com/intransitive/pages/uva.html

One 20-minute electroacoustic piece on 3" CD, begins with an uncanny clattering sensation like soda bottles rolling around inside one's ear canals (I *have* to listen to mini-CDs via portable player w/earbuds which surely accentuates said effect) ... always spiraling in various directions, growing denser, coarser and increasingly electric until abrasive squeals rumble in upper registers. This transmutation further evolves into something lighter and thinner though still whistling like squad of an angry teakettles whose emissions are refracted through wavering atmospheres, fading away gradually until only the lightest of still-clattering tinkles remain. Interesting sonic experimentations in a small dosage... I guess I'd have to call it Nehil-istic!
- B, www.ambientrance.org