Micah Frank — Quill

Quill by Micah Frank  Catalog Number: PM14Release Date​: Sep 20th, 2022Formats: Digital, CassetteEdition: 100 Buy on Bandcamp Buy on iTunes Stream on Spotify Quill is a sound journey through field recordings, bespoke software algorithms, and, in part, improvised modular synthesizer. The result is an album full of motion, a sense of physical place and space, and the complex abstract structures that can be realized in computer music. The six tracks (three per side on the cassette) are cybernetic music, human experience and electronic possibilities communicating through Frank’s musical taste, judgment, and expression.Quill’s inspiration, Frank says, “came from the complex sound pavilions of architect-composer Iannis Xenakis, the intricate electronic collages of Bernard Parmegiani, and the acousmatic fantasy worlds explored by Natasha Barrett.”Quill creates an uncanny valley of—and in—sound. The album opens with “Koelle,” and spattering waves of textures that feel both liquid and metallic.