Rothkamm – ALT (Baskaru)  As Rothkamm explains "On ALT I have set up iterative procedures on physical machines (as opposed to a linear process in software). Once the process is in motion, no or minimal intervention takes place. Each piece on ALT has the same premise: to create an infinity machine, a deus ex machina, to experience an infinite process in a finite amount of time." Judged in the realm of Rothkamm (whose output has contained the likes of a record of microtonal pieces for parlor organ containing the notable title, "Kris Kristofferson of the Avant-Garde" and “Opus Spongebobicum” with its piano variants on the first ten notes from the "Spongebob Squarepants" theme tune) this is a relatively accessible ambient affair. This is the music of the Cathode Ray Oscilliscope soaked in binary code where endless reverberations, limitless loop associations and occasional samples provide a backdrop for meditative and transcendental thought. It can allow the listener the freedom to have it wash totally over them or for them to engage completely with its changing landscape. It has an affinity with the Eno tape experiments of the 70’s, where differing length tape loops are set running and then make their own music as they rarely realign/resynch again. He is true to form and as playful as ever in his track titling and durations; there is undoubtedly a puzzle in their correlation and one which undoubtedly absolute computer logic is needed to be applied to resolve.  www.baskaru.com Willsk Next