Les amateurs de drones et de curiosités expérimentales devraient toutefois y trouver leur compte.

…alluring organ-like harmonics and deep beats, which give rise to a complex auditory involvement, unraveled in modular scores, varying in speed and intensity, giving rise to different frequencies and resonances.

It would be hard to deny that the appeal of Blake Carrington’s Cathedral Scan is as much to do with its conceptual elegance than pure aural pleasure. It springs from an ambitious sound design conceit whereby architectural plans of Gothic cathedrals generate images scanned via a Max/MSP/Jitter software patch that extrapolates the scan, mapping vision-to-sound, and thence to tempo and timbre…

The project is, in short, an imaginative and elegant rumination on the cathedral setting as experiential conduit, although in this case the nature of the experience is obviously considerably more novel than the kind traditionally associated with the locale.

The synthetic sounds are like an organ made out of drones, electrical hum, and noise. On “Cathedral Scan” the classical music approach combines with avant electronics.

Groups of scanners filling the sonic spectrum may act in synch, forming a single harmonically-dense rhythm, or they may scan the plans at different speeds, resulting in complex polyrhythms. Each plan is treated as a modular score, with a distinct rhythm and timbre of its own.

Cornelia Parker is a name that springs to mind when considering the many levels of conceptual art. In a crowded …