Steve Roden - Four Possible Landscapes Mp3

This is an arty collection of minimal electronic music - imagine SND but without beats. I bought it on the strength of track three, Resonantlightones, which is just eighteen minutes of sine waves bouncing left and right, but it's fascinating. Like an aural sculpture; like one of those executive desk toys from the 1980s with the bouncing metal balls. For me it's the a-side.

The b-sides are pleasant but not as good. Star Cluster sounds like a PS1 bios corruption hack, the final track sounds like frogs, the first track fades in slowly and has a Farfisa organ solo albeit that there's only one note and it goes on for four minutes. It's decent background music. There's a massive air of artiness that feels ridiculous seventeen years later - the inlay text describes the songs as "pieces", "works", and "spaces created from spaces", which probably wowed the audience in 2000 but hasn't aged well.