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Strange Attractor vs Disinformation: Circuit Blasting CD EP 27 minutes of lo-fi, high-voltage thrills! "A bit of a departure for the ADAADAT label, this collaborative project between sound art project Disinformation and the editor of the Strange Attractor journal, Mark Pilkington sounds akin to the kind of uncompromising experimental laptop noise you might find on a Mego release. The aesthetics of this music particularly bring to mind the likes of General Magic or Farmers Manual, being characterised by a granular distortion and severely destabilised use of stereo channels (the third, untitled track is pretty much all about the left speaker, for example). The music on this release doesn’t stem from any sophisticated homemade algorithms however, but rather the practice of setting up a strong electromagnetic field in close proximity to a toy electronic keyboard. This rather destructive practice yields fascinating results, with some beautifully mangled, involuntary circuit spasms. At times the results are outbreaks of unleashed digital noise, but more often than not there’s a surprisingly sophisticated and intriguing outcome that preserves evidence of the toy keyboard’s recognisable sonic characteristics. Excellent." Bookmart
Sense Data & Perception Published by Iris Light "One of the most impressive audio research projects" Rob Young, The Wire After a hiatus of almost 7 years, this phenomenal sound artist returns with a 27-minute EP of new sonic research recordings. The six tracks include VLF magnetic field recordings of London underground journeys, and a foray into the piano. "Disinformation has
been researching and documenting What emerges is the sound of the elemental forces, waves and energy fields that surround us. Joe Banks is not an acoustic scientist, however. He is more interested in the elusive psychology of the listening experience, the way we react to the sonic data, the fascination we experience on hearing the unhearable. In fact, apart from the two tracks documenting train journeys via unmixed electromagnetic field recordings, the 27 minutes of "Sense Data and Perception" is a good deal more musical than might be expected. On "Kwaidan" deep broken drones are fringed with stuttering inteference that sounds like techno hi-hat patterns, while "Doppelganger" dwells meditatively on a single reverberating piano note. These pieces frame the drier, more scientific work and make for an engaging listen, but it's the latter pieces that you'll keep coming back to. They're a bit like electron microscope images - illuminating, fascinating." Keith Moline, The Wire, August 2005
Disinformation: The Analysis of Beauty Catalogue A high-quality 48 page perfect-bound paperback book (204mmx204mm), published to coincide with The Analysis of Beauty touring exhibition. Essays and commentary by Richard Humphries and Joe Banks, plus archive photographs and artworks covering almost a decade of Disinformation output.
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