Graduate student Ted Moore is one half of the laptop-saxophone avant-improv duo Binary Canary (alongside saxophonist Kyle Hutchins). Their third album, iterative systems, came out in October and has been praised by audiences and critics alike. The entire project was recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered at the CHIME Studio. The album release event was held at Constellation, Chicago on November 3rd, as part of the Frequency Series.
Hutchins’s splurt, splatter, spunk, and spittle congeals throughout the spaghetti network of Moore’s tubes, feedback devices, no-input mixer, and Eurorack modules, yielding an ever-morphing nest of alien topographies that rattle the speaker cones in abject fury. This is a restless, dynamic, caustic recording whose ideas achieve critical mass the moment the disc is engaged, even during the quieter climes of “Alloy”, but that metallic sensation never resides too far off, as the duo maintain a rigorous tension and plangent atmosphere that’s just barely out of reach. –Downtown Music Gallery
