Sometimes Things Change by Bryn Davis

 

Only one thing cannot let you down. That is namely: change.

Bryn Davis cassette is being released today and as the whole catalogue of  Edições CN, it is a little thing of wonder.

Seven tracks of slowly self-modifying, flowing tracks where electronics in a wider sense of understanding this term can coincide with artist's multitude of techniques and interventions to make them into short narratives which pile up towards a cut of a wider narrative. 

Abrasive and melancholic at times, with tonal undertones and a sense of some electronic strategy game (check the track nr 2 - Difficult time) that can be both some sort of visionary urban  sonic landscapes. Human voices recorded and put into a context of something uncanny reminds me of re-interpretations of poetry written as it goes with life and the happenstance of what is going on, what we see now and here. 

It's a hallucination drop of events, put together in a way that nothing is really predictable.  A psychogeography in a musical sense, done in a way that is both nothing short of wonder and assembled in a style of a cut up tableau - only seemingly without a script or a scenario. But listen to it again and again and everything starts to fall into the right place. 

Bryn Davis is a composer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her works are oriented around serendipity, fluid possibilities, and (not infrequently) absurdity. They have won a variety of awards including the 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

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