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BT - This Binary Universe
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Title: This Binary Universe
Artist: BT
Label: DTS Entertainment
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Price: £12.99
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Release Date: 27th November 2006
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Details: BT (aka Brian Transeau) returns with his new album, ‘This Binary Universe’ on 27th November. Complete with a DVD of accompanying short-films and animations, the 7 track soundscape is released through DTS Entertainment.
‘All That Makes Us Human Continues’ opens the album with melodic synths and guitar twangs flecked across an echoing space-age backdrop. The animation slowly draws the viewer into a web spun from shards of light, creating a world of twisted dimensions. ‘Dynamic Symmetry’ builds around staccatoed bleeps and sleepy clicks before morphing into sun-drenched jazz. The video is populated by freakish, otherworldly characters inhabiting an alien landscape with one of the creatures cranking new planetary systems out of a galaxy-making machine. ‘1.618’ is an epic, known to mathematicians as ‘phi,’ it is understood by artists as the ‘Golden Ratio’ and relates to eternal flows of spirals. Cricket-like synths power the track along, looping around warped bass and shimmering bells. ‘The Anhtkythera Mechanism’ refers to a 2,000 year old Greek computer discovered at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. The story of this device is one of reconnecting modern man with the ancients through numerical equations that rule the cosmos; it is played out through a tense score of grating electronica, prowling strings and victorious trumpets.
“To marry melody, harmony and memorable songwriting with the most bleeding-edge technology possible is my passion,” says BT. “These are the things that excite me.”
‘This Binary Universe’ reaches beyond the standard model of artists’ collaborations. It aims to build a creative bridge across the void that separates sight and sound in computer-generated artistic expression. This is a blending of visions that are distinct and diverse but united through their audacity and iconoclasm. “This is what my heroes Debussy, Stravinsky and the like were looking for,” says BT. “Technology based music is the only idiom that packs such infinite sonic possibilities,” he says.
Alongside each of the compositions crafted by BT is a distinguished collection of the finest computer artists and animators in the world today, including Mondi, Dose Productions and Scott Pagano, with BT himself taking hold of the director’s reigns along the way.
Following on from epic master-pieces such as ‘IMA’ and ‘ESCM,’ BT delivered the diverse ‘Movement In Still Life’ in 2000 before coming back with his last album, ‘Emotional Technology’ in 2003 and scoring his biggest single to date, ‘Somnambulist.’ He has provided scores for blockbuster movies such as ‘The Fast and the Furious’ and ‘Monster’ and collaborated with everybody from N*Sync and Britney Spears through to Madonna, Sting and Peter Gabriel.
This collaboration of composer and animators is more than a mere bonus that comes with the tracks, it is a genuine unification of music and visuals; a stand-alone artwork pushing the limits of available technology in sound engineering and computer-generated art, rather than just a novelty in support of the music.
‘This Binary Universe’ is released through DTS Entertainment on 27th November.
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