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k. leimer | imposed order
Imposed Order is a more evolved execution of Closed System Potentials, with a greater emphasis on “automatic” solutions to the music. Analog tape recorders were a big part of achieving particular ends: speed and direction flexibility allowed the same material to be used in many different ways. For rhythmic parts, percussion patterns were authored on separate tracks with an Oberheim DMX and then run over one another at differing clock speeds. As a rule, audio elements were shared across the pieces: for example, many parts of “Three Forms of Decay” are essentially the same as those used in “Aspects of Order”. Using a set inventory of harmonic parts at different intervals and rates of speed reduced the compositional task to one more akin to arranging furniture in a room – imposing a variable order upon a selection of harmonically related material in a decidedly heuristic way.
K. Leimer creates sound mosaics with a greater dynamic range and rhythmic drive. As a Brian Eno disciple, Leimer is also concerned with shaping sound via tape, but he also uses the synthesizer. Imposed Order alternates between a tropical hi-tech sound of pounding percussion-loop rhythms and zooming Doppler effects within atmospheric tone poems. A lone guitar chord, a whispering flute tone, a chorus of train whistles crying down an infinite tunnel - these are the fragments from which Leimer constructs his music – detailing each sonic adventure as carefully as Tolkien detailed his Middle Earth. There’s an organic feel to Leimer’s music, and a sense that living beings exist here, however alien.
— John Diliberto, Downbeat
Imposed Order
- tracks
- The Human Condition
- Shallows
- Three Forms of Decay
- Life of the Poet
- Wajang Kulit
- Water Music
- Simple Hierarchies
- Aspects of Order
- Method, Language and Silence
- purchase
- CD$ 9.00
- Flac download$ 5.00
- MP3 download$ 5.00
© 2012 K. Leimer