Targazer
by Alex Mackay
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Synthetic Disaster
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Permanent Twilight
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Hex Negative
10:45
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about
The final four pieces originated in sessions between tours with Mogwai in late 2018/early 2019, in which Alex's onstage setup of electric guitars, synthesizers, effects pedals and amplifiers was augmented with experimental computer processing, sampling techniques and manipulated string textures. Rigorous harmonic and structural processes were then applied to these raw sessions of live instrumentation, sculpting them into these four pieces that make up this debut solo release. The resulting work brings the high volume intensity of Alex's performance work into the realm of highly detailed contemporary composition, creating a record that marks the convergence of the multiple creative paths he has been treading in recent years.
The album art and video are the second strand to Targazer’s double helix; Alex and artist Matt Zurowski's vision of the creation of a bio-digital domain. In this new ecology, biological and digital realities overlap and interfere with one another, a visual parallel to the collision of digital and organic musical processes within the music. Moss breaks through cracks in stone and cracks in data, negotiating new forms of being as a part-digital organism. Unlikely, uncanny and amorphous objects populate this territory between territories.
The video accompanying the album’s opening track ‘God Monitor/Screen Burn' is a study of textures and surfaces. It interprets the fabric of organic and computational domains as entangled and fragile realities. Differences in movement, image quality, texture and shape all contribute to the conjuring of an interconnected bio-digital consciousness which navigates through the similarities and disparities of these subjects.
Whether taken as pure concept or a visceral pummel through the morphing cosmic soup, Targazer happily embraces the teeming possibilities of moving environments but probably won’t be playing in any elevators anytime soon.
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credits
Written and Produced by Alex Mackay
Mastered by Simon Scott
Artwork by Matt Zurowski
Design by Hannes Jentsch
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Forwind Dublin, Ireland
Reclaimed reverberations under the global floorboards / Detected and developed in Dublin and Berlin
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