The material heard on Emptyset‘s album Dissever was first presented at London’s Tate Modern gallery, where it was performed as part of an exhibition about the global history of art and technology titled Electric Dreams.
Like other Emptyset releases, the pieces were recorded in single takes, capturing the spontaneity and raw energy of the duo’s unique creative processes. Emptyset are often known for improvising on self-created instruments, and on Dissever, they returned to early hardware as well as spatial and multitrack recording techniques. Their music focuses on timbre rather than melody, often establishing a vibrating pulse and dousing it in distortion. Opener “Gloam” stares straight forward, rocking back and forth while…