Work of Progress & Etudes, by J.Lynch

Work of Progress & Etudes

by J.Lynch

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Ryan J.Lynch returns to DAAM with a wonderfully eclectic collection of gestural music that constantly surprises and rewards.

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1.	Number One Caged 03:26	buy track
2.	Underneath Clang (For Magpie And Bee) 03:58	buy track
3.	Let it 03:59	buy track
4.	Preparation For Uncomfortable Beds. 04:31	buy track
5.	For Piano and Things 02:54	buy track
6.	études - 01 étude 04:03	buy track
7.	études - 02 étude 02:22	buy track
8.	études - 03 étude 04:00	buy track

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J.Lynch is the name that Johny Lamb uses for his electronic music. Better known for his output as Thirty Pounds of Bone, where he spends his time stretching the folk tradition around noisy guitars and synths. Here though, as J.Lynch he loses any sense of song, large portions of tonality and ditches meter to work with timbre, interval, noise, microtonality
and texture.

The palette on these recordings is a wonky collision of modular and semi-modular synths, field recordings, granular sampling, and (sometimes prepared) acoustic instruments. Primarily the piano. The key to this work is drawing. In the sense of the physical act of making marks, but also as in drawing a bath, drawing from a well and so on. Music and recording treated somehow like charcoal and paper. Gestures reinforced, smudged, rubbed out. As such the often used means of controlling synths, like sequencers, keyboards, midi and such are abandoned forcing a haptic interaction with the instrument. Oscillators remain unquantized for a more various relationship with pitch that eschews equal temperament.

J.Lynch has worked with scores (one of which is included with the release). Beginning with notation, the scores are made with ink, pencil, pen and paint to build a chaotic and difficult set of visual cues. Some directly from standard notation, some built from gesture or colour.
These ensure a different outcome with each take. Takes are then overlaid and forced together to build compositions that then receive no post-production. What we hear is what happened over the course of several passes of performance.The compositions and études consider the West Coast paradigm of synthesis and marry those with experimental music of the last 60 years or so, borrowing from Cage, Tenney, Young and others to build something interesting.

He has also thought a great deal about one statement made by the late artist Brian Catling ‘The reality, this is not what I want. It’s the other thing.’ A principle that has been allowed to snake through this music as it pleases.

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released February 15, 2023

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