The second Love Earth release of this week is a CDR by Viliji entitled ‘I Came From Nothing’. Viliji is MacKenzie Kourie from Providence, Rhode Island, and yes, he is very probably the same MacKenzie mentioned in the +DOG+ liner notes. Five untitled tracks with a total playing time of 40+ minutes are on this release, and I’ll start by being honest: I can’t make anything from it from the perspective of my mindset. In other words: How I listen to or create music limits me in giving this release a fair chance. The five tracks are made of what seems to be erratic manipulation of synths, recorded in one setting. Sound-wise, those synths are treated heavily (directly or afterwards, I can’t tell), resulting in what probably should or could be labelled improv noise.
I do understand perfectly how this form of composition creates sounds that can be used and re-used in compositions. Simply because you are creating accidents, and the more accidents you create, the more happy accidents are amongst them. But to listen to complete sessions is very tiresome if you’re not used to it. There are some really happy accidents on here; Some of the tracks have their moments (my favourite track: “3”), but as a whole, this album could well be the output of a scientific experiment. In that case, it would not be entitled “I Came From Nothing” but something like ‘Proceedings on Borel’s Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité’, which was the first mention in contemporary science of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Then it also would have touched the thin line between art and science. If it had been that, I probably could have handled the erratics better.
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