Rhythmic Dissonance

Justin Buckley’s “Pong” and “0101” provide another pair of examples of how one musician’s experiments are a listener’s benefit. Both tracks are early tryouts by Buckley of, among other tools, the Cylonix Cyclebox, a “digital oscillator.” But the real experiment isn’t with technology so much as with aesthetic approach. Buckley is working toward something he calls “rhythmic dissonance,” which has an effect along the lines of the phase shifting we associate with Steve Reich’s work. Buckley defines this as follows: “can sounds which aren’t necessarily in sync actually work together in a composition.”

Tracks originally posted at soundcloud.com/justin-buckley. More from Buckley, who is based in Berlin, Germany, at crumblereshape.com and twitter.com/crumblereshape.