Inspired by the Earth’s greatest cataclysmic event, Miles Davis and experimental electronic sounds – sugar sk*-*lls and Coupler collab to create a three part composition traversing the stages of life, destruction and recreation – The Great Oxidation Event.
As the story was told to me, sugar sk*-*lls found themselves at Second Floor Recording Co. recording a longform improvisational piece. These electronic recordings would be handed off to Coupler with the intention of his mixing, editing and mutating the sounds into their final forms. This was a nod to the techniques used on Bitches Brew – a collaboration between Miles Davis and Teo Macero.
The 30-minute composition that emerged is best appreciated through full immersion, listening start to finish through the conceptual movements of the Earth’s changing environment. The sounds may conjure a sense of impending sense of dread, a desolate quiet and a dominating unease. The arrival of modern life on terra firma comes at a price. This could be as atomic as learning to synthesize sunlight into oxygen or may manifest as a mechanical self-supervised machine traversing one’s and zero’s.
Collaborations between sugar sk*-*lls and Coupler date back some 25 years. We’re happy to report, this synthesis will continue as additional collaborations are already on the horizon.
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