Christina Kubisch has been experimenting with sound, light and concrete/noise since the '70s, before most of the current crop of underground stopped messing themselves after a bellyful of milk. It feels like another circle has been completed with this latest aspect of her experimentalism, as it has been released by on a label co-run by a member of the experimental poster dudes Wolf Eyes (Nate Young's Aryan Asshole). As part of her Electrical Walks series this single track is a headphone record in more ways than one.
Kubisch's magnetic headphones have built-in coils that respond to electrical fields within their environment. Talking a walk with these phones has spawned here a track of cross-town traffic electrics (rather than electronics) that criss-cross each other like a skyline of pylons. Like a different missive from every street corner, passing pedestrian and piece of underground cabling its possible to hear the silent hum of invisible life. At just under three minutes, and regardless of the details of its creation, this is a progressively pulsing piece of electric-grey head music. The minimal rhythm patterns are pretty simplistic; sounding in places like synth constructed clicks and cuts that threaten to blossom and subside, but never do.
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