Echoic Architecture

by Endurance

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1.	Glass Towers 12:52	buy track
2.	Varying Distances 03:07	buy track
3.	Twilight Arcade 08:31	buy track
4.	Automata 05:16	buy track
5.	Artificial Recess 06:08	buy track
6.	Infrastructure 02:14	buy track
7.	Terminating Point 10:00	buy track
8.	The Entire City 11:36	buy track

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Cassette available here: polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/echoic-architecture

Recorded by Joshua Stefane, a Canadian researcher living in Nara, Japan.

Recorded in Winter, 2017, using TCM-900 tape players, Roland SH-32, OP-1, pedals, field recordings, and tapes.

Photography and layout by Joshua Stefane and Brad Deschamps

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released June 3, 2017

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Badd Press:
"A third of the way into Joshua Stefane’s new 60-minute recording under the name Endurance, it appears certain we’re in for a purely minimalist tour of his favourite drone sounds. This is by no means a criticism. The globetrotting Canadian researcher and translator who now calls Nara, Japan home can be fairly credited with top-notch contributions to the genre.
But if you allow yourself to drift off during those first 20 minutes, there’s a good chance you’re in for some deeply weird dreams.
We get our first indication that something else is on the way a little more than five minutes into “Twilight Arcade.” It’s quiet at first. A light scratching sound, or maybe it’s a gentle drip of water. While it fades after a couple of minutes, we have been put on notice. There’s much more to Echoic Architecture than first meets the ear.
“Automate” opens with a spinning that repeats throughout the piece. That’s coupled with gnawing scratches, a sound that can only be compared to falling bricks and various other miracles of engineering. All set to an elegant ambient bed track.
Subsequent pieces like “Infrastructure” and “The Entire City” round out the album’s industrial vibe. In the end, Echoic Architecture reveals itself to be a multi-layered tour de force.
Pleasant dreams."
baddpress.blog/2017/06/01/endurance-echoic-architecture/
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SoWhat:
"Sinuosi riverberi che espandendosi liberi ricostruiscono un immaginifico percorso attraverso differenti ambienti urbani. È un’indagine sensoriale dai tratti definiti quella costruita da Joshua Stefane, ricercatore canadese attualmente d’istanza in Giappone, un viaggio alla scoperta di come l’architettura incida sulla memoria spaziale e di come tutto ciò possa tramutarsi in suono.
Le sintetiche saturazioni plasmate da Stefane sviluppano stratificazioni persistenti che sembrano voler occupare i vuoti interstiziali delimitati da barriere divenute membrane risonanti e definite attraverso un processo in negativo atto a delinearne i tratti e il relativo influsso su chi si ritrova ad attraversare lo spazio. Ci si ritrova così immersi in flussi di fragile e accecante luminosità (“Glass towers”), trasportati in contesti definiti da una tangibile matericità (“Automata”) o persi in contesti residuali disegnati da silenti bordoni striati da flebili increspature (“Artificial recess”).
Un’esplorazione affascinante alla scoperta di un mondo tangibile solamente immaginato."
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/endurance-echoic-architecture/
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Endurance is Joshua Stefane. Born in Ontario, Canada, now based in Nara, Japan. He works as a bioethics researcher and translator and spends most of his remaining time writing science-fiction and composing music.

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