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Cybernetic Window

by Listening Center

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    Polytechnic Youth 12"edition pressed on classic black vinyl in reverse board sleeve.

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Cybernetic Window is Listening Center’s ninth album and the fifth release for Polytechnic Youth/Deep Distance, following Retrieving in 2019. It is yet another collection of exquisitely crafted micro-beat analogue essays recorded directly to 2 track, the only exceptions being the occasional overdub of a string synth.

As with most of Listening Center’s albums, it is the interaction of the instruments and the pathos of melodic and harmonic combinations which are foregrounded. The ten pieces here were composed and recorded during a period when it was possible to perform many live concerts and this album largely features the setup from this time - TR606, CSQ600, some modest modular kit, and synth-pop classics such as the Yamaha CS01, among others. The music, as has always been Listening Center’s aim, strives to convey a feeling of hope for a future tinged by the vicissitudes of the present.

The title Cybernetic Window refers to the way in which the music on this album was recorded - a system of instruments which carry out different functions, steered by a composer/performer/engineer toward the realization of compositions which can suggest alternative musical frames of reference. It is also a curt nod to an evolving digital reality, whereby information and perception can be routinely controlled and manipulated by opaque vectors. Cybernetic Window does not present synth nostalgia but draws on specific aesthetics and technology to create a flexible musical continuum which can be adaptable to listening for purposes of reflection, study or recreation.

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released April 4, 2022

Polytechnic Youth PY128
Recorded 2018 by David K. Mason.

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Listening Center presents a patchwork of imagined pasts and futures, in which the listener can make their way through an undergrowth of dream-like melodies and electronic sound palettes which have the effect of being now reassuring, now unsettling.

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