Attention should definitely be given to the remarkable sound design achieved by ambient-electronic artist Hollan Holmes on The Sanctity of Rust; his maturation as a composer and conceptualist impresses even more, however, and marks the release as a high point in this Texas-based sound sculptor’s career. The sound design first: among the hardware and software listed on the release’s inner sleeve are the Korg MS20 and Oberheim Matrix 12 plus tools such as Native Instruments, Arturia Pigments, and Spectrasonics Omnisphere; custom samples and FM synthesis also played a part in the project’s production. He’s no purist, by the way: Holmes is happy to work acoustic sounds into a composition if the music requires it, which means one shouldn’t…

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