Genre: Noise / Experimental / Other
Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01 Militant Audio
02 Musical Abatement
03 A Null Thought
Disc 2:
01 Blank Stare of Hunger
02 Section 8
03 Snatcher
04 War on Terra
“Audio Insurgency” by Rabbit Girls consists of 2 small (“3) MCDRs in a small colourful pack. They’re attached together and everything is put in a ziplock bag: perfectly protected! But, protected from what? I guess I haven’t got the concept. Anyway, it’s a good way of storing it and it’s resistant.
Let’s start for the 1st MCDR. Some say Rabbit Girls is rhythmic noise: not at all. No clear rhythm here, even if some proto-rhythms are present, for instance in the end of “Militant Audio”. We however can perceive some repetitive patterns, or simply oscillations of the main sound layer through echoes, such as on “Musical Abatement”.
But many many different sounds are present: some glitches, especially some kind of machine-like vibrations echoing, distorted tortured voices, gratings, roars between electric guitar and chainsaw (“Musical Abatement”). Interesting to note that it sounds like each sound has its layer: some are loud, some are low, but all are spread out in a very balanced way, so that many are perceived.
For the 2nd MCDR, let’s say it’s different. “Blank Stare of Hunger” is truly different and much more messy and noisy than on the previous MCDR.
On this second MCDR, we can hear deep low oscillating basses that tend to replace the “ambient” oscillating pattern of the 1st MCDR. I guess listening to such low sounds strongly depends on your audio system. This 2nd MCDR is much more focused on voices, which are much deformed distorted or played backward, as on “Section 8”. The deformation is not focused, as often, on a pure and corrosive distortion, but more original.
“Snatcher” seems harsher in the beginning and then may surprise the listener because of its truly almost unrecognizable voices and dissonant patterns, contrasting with the 1st MCDR’s tracks. Because of some parts in this track, it might deserve the qualifier “drone”.
“War on Terra” features the same dissonance, together with many different “radio” speeches, in a very confuse way, and car’s acceleration in the background, giving a distant taste of NON’s experimentations.
The atmosphere of “Audio Insurgency” is not especially dark, but chaotic, although without sound-walls, brutal changes, or aggressiveness. It’s a calm and weird atmosphere featuring almost melodic echoing sounds. It doesn’t sound electronic as usual.
Particularly noticeable is this kind of echo of the main sound layer and other sounds that quickly creates some kind of oscillating patterns. It’s a way of giving some rhythm without beats. But it also creates something closer to ambient, something a bit meditative, with oscillating harmonies. This goes in a stark contrast with the glitches, all the layered deformations of sounds and voices, the distorted or white-noisy parasites.
Ideal for those not afraid of experimental things, relatively calm noise, not to say “ambient noise”, on the first MCDR. Some may say it’s rather droning than ambient. But I’d say sounds aren’t low buzzes, not much abrasive, closer to a relatively smooth ambient pattern.
The 2nd MCDR tends to be darker, harsher, more focused on voices, maybe with less sounds’ variety, a bit more “drone”, too.
I haven’t been particularly seduced by “Audio Insurgency” although I recognise its originality and care for sounds arrangement and aesthetic. Let’s say it will satisfy people in search for experimental noise.
