Do
computers have a soul? Are they able to create emotions by all those
zeroes and ones and to develop an aesthetic interface for poetry and
music? By his second album for Mikrolux, the Niederrhein-based sound
researcher Harald Karla again explores the emotional subtext and harmonies
in the binary code of his computer.
This time, however, he strikes less strictly technical paths as with
his 2005 debut album „Chiplandschaften“ completely made
of Commodore Amiga 1200 samples (also released on Mikrolux). Thus, the
natural romance of tracks like 'D.A.Y.R.A.I.N.', 'A.I.R.P.O.R.T.', 'S.Y.N.C.E.D.',
'A.K.U.S.T.I.K.E.R.' or 'B.R.I.T.T.L.E.' is even more surprising. These
sounds are bewitching the listener and take him to sensual depths with
apparently agravic ease. Selected from more than thirty productions
from the past two and a half years, the fourteen tracks of 'p_composing'
all represent the vision of reproducing ambient jazz by means of downtempo
elektro. And who knows - maybe the microchips in Karlas studio indeed
have comfortingly lolled under his production commands?!