Cadlag project. — A space born in sound and a sound born in space.
Interweaving aural and visual architectures of sound by inspecting and challenging versatile sonic form(ul)ations.
Cadlag [+] video excerpt:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ruDWnsKJZ8
{ Phenomenology of [+].
Plus and minus being (NOT) one and the same.
[+] as additive function and [-] as subtractive function.
Both encompass difference, yet belong to one and the same movement, i.e. movement forwards and movement backwards.
Both are too much and too less at the same time; both are use(ful/less). Both are movements of empty mathematical forms, that belong to nothingness of their instrumental derivative, i.e. every(no)thing.
Everything and nothing, both being no-thing at all.
Empty addition and empty subtraction of [1] - first 'sadistic' movement of the will to add, divide and substract. The birth of [1], the birth of [+], of the ever-additive successive "1's", that equals no-thing at all. Empty repetitive compulsive disorder of mathematical 'creation'; abstract form/s that feeds on the concrete and presses it with non-avoidable sign of mortality, as the simple enumeration of the number [1]. The process that stamps and kills/transforms the life-substance into mere empty abstract form/s. The first formally inevitable and perpetual death of the life itself, feeding and gorging upon its own (formal) flesh. The formal leaves the trace on the existential (the content of organic life), becomes the marker of the dissolution of the death itself, converging upon its own content, that is life.
[+] and [-], both being empty signs of absolute division, a demarcation between appearance/s and disappearance/s of no-thing/s.
Delight in both, the creation and death at the same time. }
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⍋ Via Noise Beneath The Snow:
"[..] At times vast and wondrous and other times, frighting and unsettling, not too many drone/noise acts can take you to several locations in one trip. CADLAG has the ability to take the listener on a meandering journey through crystal-clear other-worldly spots only to drop them in a truly stunning and horrifying location filled with uncertainty. [...] ..simply masters of incorporating density and sparseness in their unique journeys. “Plus” is another journey, perhaps a tad more terrifying and paranoid than its predecessor. Nevertheless it most definitely leaves the listener to feel not the same as they did the moment they clicked <Play>.”
noisebeneaththesnow.com/2020/04/03/cadlag-album-review-experimental-noise
⍋ Via Indie Rock Mag (by Lapin):
"Le quatuor emmené par Simon Šerc (PureH) et Neven M. Agalma (Ontervjabbit, Dodecahedragraph) nous fait le coup de l’arme de destruction massive de dernière minute à chaque sortie. Avec +, lâché quelques heures à peine avant le réveillon, le drone funeste et incandescent des Slovènes ne déchaîne sa tempête d’échardes analogiques et de clous digitaux rouillés qu’au terme d’un crescendo patient, puis par intermittence dans un va-et-vient d’annihilation et de réinvention, une prégnance de l’atmosphère dans le bruitisme et vice-versa qui faisait déjà toute la force de leur première Live Tape puis du fantastique Votivkirche mais dont la dimension harsh noise se fait ici plus mesurée, laissant de l’espace au background de textures viciées et aux sirènes stridentes d’une apocalypse numérique imminente."
www.indierockmag.com/article33198
⍋ Via SoWhatMusica:
"Scuro e algido magma in graduale ed inarrestabile movimento. Tagliente come una lama spietata si erge e ribolle la materia sonica scolpita in presa diretta da Dejan Brilj, Boris Laharnar, Simon Šerc e Neven M. Agalma per dare vita al terzo capitolo del condiviso progetto Cadlag, asfissiante torrente di ruvide frequenze analogico-sintetiche in vorticoso sviluppo.
Da un crescendo di sulfuree correnti cariche di schiacciante tensione, lentamente prende forma un’inquieta massa di acuminati frammenti e disturbanti riverberi in dinamica espansione, un claustrofobico addensarsi di trame che procedono tra vischiosa, apparente quiete e dirompente, deflagrante ascensione. Un procedere incostante e frammentato che ha nella sua durezza, nella sua aspra propagazione il filo conduttore che lega e guida i differenti momenti di una deriva allucinata ed alienante da cui farsi travolgere senza opporre inutile resistenza. Nero che schiaccia."
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/cadlag/
⍋ Via Sigic:
"Bolj kot glasbeni ritem je to kozmični ritem, valovanje, ples zvoka in nezvoka, kar nas v silovitem drvenju skozi krajino, v težki zasičenosti ušes lahko pripelje do nežnih občutij in roba nesementimentalnih solz. Takšnih, ki črpajo onkraj pomena, iz globin uma, telesa in kozmosa. Skratka, poslušanje nas lahko pripelje, ali pa je samo mene, v bližino sublimnih razstopitev, sicer dokaj redko razporejenih po naših življenjih, ki so tako in tako vedno bolj rutinirana in stanjšana skoraj do nezaznavnosti. Smo pač zadnji ljudje. Morda bi bil prav zato namesto nudenja šablonskih terapevtskih tehnik za današnje odtujene množice primernejši prisluh Plusa."
www.sigic.si/hrupni-podzemni-monument.html
released December 31, 2019
Cadlag . Plus.
• Live A/V performance at Vašhava RTH Hrastnik
• De-constructed, performed and recorded by Cadlag.
• Concept/Artwork/Audio-video edit/Mastering: Simon Šerc
• Text/Liner note: Neven M. Agalma
• Camera: Martina Testen / David Verlič
• Photography: David Verlič
• Catalog: PFCD036 / PFCD036V.
• Label: Pharmafabrik Recordings.
• Audio format: CD Digipak.
• Video format: VHS.
Cadlag members:
Bass/efx: Dejan Brilj
Guitar/efx: Boris Laharnar
Double bass/efx: Simon Šerc
File bearer/efx: Neven M. Agalma
www.cadlag.net
www.pharmafabrik.com
