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Lasse Marhaug - 《Context (STSLJN396LP)》

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Lasse Marhaug是一位挪威音乐人，除了主要在噪音音乐领域活跃以外也参与其他多种音乐形式和项目，比如即兴、爵士、摇滚和极端金属，他也为剧场、舞蹈、艺术装置和录像艺术等制作音乐。与他合作过的艺人不计其数，比如前Thorr’s Hammer成员Runhild Gammelsæter，实验金属乐队Sunn O)))，爵士乐多乐器演奏家Joe McPhee，以及大名鼎鼎的Merzbow等等。Context是今年9月2日由挪威厂牌Smalltown Supersound发行的他的最新个人作品。

Context1 震颤的电流音缓慢堆积，然后加入持续拖长的哨声和一种撕裂的噪音，这拉长的声音似从远处的无中生来，风尘仆仆赶到听者听觉接收范围之内。声音的堆积变得复杂，噪音更加有能量，撕裂声占据主导犹如千万根钢丝鞭笞大脑。

Context2 缓慢的滴滴声衬托出一种不安的寂静，时不时半张开眼睛的pad声拉长时间感，伸懒腰，直到彻底醒过来，平稳持续的呼吸，电流噪音再次出现，如同宇宙微波背景辐射，此时初醒的意识难道已经逐渐升入浩瀚虚无的外太空？尖锐的glitch声音加入，然后是低沉的bass音，暗流涌动四处潜伏着危机。

Context4呼呼风声然后蹦出一种来自地表以下的声响，在烟雾缭绕的地面滚动，来回奔跑，一种连续干脆的呼噜声不知不觉中加入进来，然后逐渐让位于以脉冲形式缓慢加入的低音，这种低音每重复一次集聚的能量便增多几分，速度逐渐加快，然后慢慢变弱远去。

Context5不同于前几首曲子，这首曲子以一种尖锐高频噪音引入，叽叽喳喳烦躁不安，然后逐渐显露出秩序，切入至一个深邃空间，贯穿始终的噪音线索伴随着缓慢的故障声响脉冲，此时加入了带有一点色彩的连续pad音，噪音终止，空间被逐渐扩展至无穷远处，一种暗藏的能量在声音的周期重复中慢慢集聚。

Context6将风暴浓缩在了持续不到两秒的声音硬块之中，敲击地面，尘埃飞扬，伴随每一次规律的敲击，硬块逐渐分解，延音越来越长，故障噪音再次加入，然后是一种清脆的乐器的声音，旋律为声音带来了一点点颜色，节制，然后是按摩大脑的噼啪声，无数个泡泡迅速破裂在空气中。

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Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who aside from being active in the noise music scene is often found on collaborative projects with musicians in the improvisation, jazz, rock, and extreme metal scenes. He has also created works for theatre, dance, installation, and video art projects. He has collaborated with numerous musicians such as Runhild Gammelsæter of Thorr’s Hammer, experimental metal band Sunn O))), jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, the renowned Merzbow, etc. Context, released this September on Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound, is his latest collection of personal works.

Context 1

On this track, a trembling static gradually builds until it is joined by a continuous long whistle sound and searing noise. This drawn out sound seems to originate from the vanishing point of a far-off distance, a dust cloud that rushes in from just outside the audible range of the listener. The accumulation of sound becomes ever more intricate, and the noise becomes ever more powerful, until the violence of the noise grows to dominate the scene like a thousand wires whipping the listener’s brain.

Context 2

A gentle beeping sound interjects into the track intro’s furtive silence. A sleepy-eyed pad sound comes in from time to time and stretches the listener’s sense of time until the sound grows fully awake to become steady and continuous like something breathing. The static hum of AC electricity reappears like cosmic microwave background radiation. Could it be that at this time, an awakened consciousness has gradually ascended into this vast and empty expanse of outer space? Sharp glitchy sounds join in, followed by a deep bass, establishing a foreboding undercurrent lurking in all directions.

Context 4

After establishing the scene with whirring wind, we’re introduced to a sound of subterranean origin, rolling through a landscape thick with ground fog and moving back and forth. A continuous crisp grunt comes out of nowhere, and gradually gives way to the slow sound of a pulse. This low-end bass accumulates energy with each repetition while gradually increasing in speed before slowly fading away.

Context 5

Unlike previous songs, Context 5 starts off with a sharp high frequency noise, chattering and restless before gradually revealing an order to the madness and cutting into deep space. Accompanying the initial trail of noise, a soft pulse-like glitch sound follows. It’s now that a drawn-out pad sound adds colour to the scene and the noise stops. The scene gradually expands out to infinity, while a hidden energy slowly accumulates via periodic repetition of the sound.

Context 6

A storm condensed into a hard block of sound lasting for less than two seconds hits the ground, sending dust flying into the air. With each percussive beat, the block of sound gradually disintegrates and the sustain gradually becomes longer and longer. A familiar glitch sound reappears, and then comes the crisp sound of some instrument, with a melody that gives the scene some colour. This stops, and then a crackling sound starts massaging the listener’s brain with countless little bubbles bursting as they rise into the air.

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