Age of Insects is the result of a series of visits made by Mark and Laura to Stephen’s studio in Virginia between May 2009 and January 2010. The three improvised around common interests in analog electronics and digital manipulation, field recordings and instrumental performance practice. These recordings presented here feature only minimal editing and post-production, with a primary intent of capturing shared moments of listening and response. The titles refer to extinct insects—the imagined hum and flutter of their calls, flight and communication.
Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello
Age of Insects
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- Duration:
- 52:39
- Format:
- CD-R, Digital, Streaming
- Edition:
- 200 (out of print)
- Release Date:
- May 1, 2011
- Cover:
Matt Flowers
- Track Listing:
- Cascoplecia
- Ektatotricha
- Vosila
- Protophasma
- Paleophaedon
- Monura
- Electrinocellia
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
- TIDAL
About The Artist:
Mem1
Stephen Vitiello
Press:
Publisher/Date:
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EtherREAL
January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012
Mem1 et Stephen Vitiello travaillent avant tout sur l’évocation. Ici, tout semble abstrait, brumeux, mais régulièrement notre oreille va accrocher sur un son caché dans le magma sonore, deux sonorités perdues qui se sont trouvées à un instant donné. Un voyage sonore.
Best of Lists
December 31, 2011
December 31, 2011
Miguel Isaza, & David Velez.
Touching Extremes
December 22, 2011
December 22, 2011
Far from cheerfulness, loaded with unrevealed secrets, this resilient creature needs recurring attempts before breaking into its sonic shell. After that, it’s uncontaminated bliss for the large part of the time that you’ll devote to it.
Foxy Digitalis
October 25, 2011
October 25, 2011
When something is this well-executed and beautifully complex, it’s hard to listen and not get fully enveloped in it….Definitely pick this one up.
Igloo Magazine
October 24, 2011
October 24, 2011
Sonorities may lose individuality, especially when cello states are altered to buzz-tone and fuzz-drone; generally, though, Age of Insects retains a certain resonant character through its mix of electroacousticacoustic and concrète with transient melodic and rhythmic detail, ensuring a satisfying sonic envisioning of concept.
The Field Reporter
September 6, 2011
September 6, 2011
The aesthetic acoustic considerations present in Age of Insects are very successful in terms of how they build this universe (conceptually and formally) and establish this object-space-time relation that works on a perceptual level building up images of wires, insects, metallic surfaces and bizarrely depicted temporalities and spatialities.
Neural
September 6, 2011
September 6, 2011
Here are uncomfortable alien soundscapes, totally engaging in their bright stellar aplomb.
Le son du Grisli
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
Beaucoup de mystères et beaucoup de beauté dont les conséquences sont indescriptibles.
The Silent Ballet
June 15, 2011
June 15, 2011
Age of Insects feels warm and organic, as though granting insight into the meticulous scientific processes behind this insect resurrection, incorporating the hum of standby machinery and the throb of harsh laboratory lights.
Loop
June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011
…a disturbing atmosphere.
Textura
June 1, 2011
June 1, 2011
…highly textured electro-acoustic sound sculpting of the micro-detailed kind.
Cyclic Defrost Magazine
May 19, 2011
May 19, 2011
Mem1, the husband-wife cello-electronics duo of Mark and Laura Cetilia, are no strangers to collaboration and their microsound approach fits well with Stephen Vitiello’s electronics, creating fluid layers of grit, subdued scrapes, flickering sine tones and amorphous hum.