Davignon, Matt / Softwetfish
Album: Softwetfish   Collection:General
Artist:Davignon, Matt   Added:Sep 2006
Label:Edgetone Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-09-24 Pull Date: 2006-11-26 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Nov 12 Oct 22 Oct 15 Oct 8 Oct 1
Airplays: 2 1 1 4 2

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 05, 2009: Music Casserole [lost & found edition]
This Again!
4. Aug 03, 2007: Memory Select
Sculpture By Erosion
2. Jan 04, 2008: Memory Select
A Mistake/Some Held Breaths
5. Jan 27, 2007: Cognitive Overload (noise special)
A Warehouse Collapses In Reverse
3. Sep 19, 2007: Day of Difficulty
Lying In Grass, Gazing Upwards At 11:30pm
6. Nov 10, 2006: Carrots & Sticks...But Mostly Sticks
Sculpture By Erosion

Album Review
mufaor
Reviewed 2006-09-25
Experimental electro-acoustic. Very unique. Like electronic fishies swimming in your ears and robotic worms massaging your insides. Not new age, academic, nor straight-up electronica. Most tracks are slow and soft, some more tense. All intriguing. Lots of “wet” sounds indeed. Bay area composer! More info on his website: http://www.ribosomemusic.com/index.html Favs 2, 6, 12.

1. Manipulated night scape – crickets, a river, frogs… Beautiful pitch bending.
*2. More electronic-sounding. A crackly noise persists throughout, a synthesizer yawn sound, and some drippy swirly stuff. Beautiful.
3. Noisy. Lots of different complicated rhythms/sounds going on at once.
4. Beautiful shimmery water – title "Organelles" – sounds like they’re doing a ballet :)
5. Melodic somehow, more of a song, with clearer separate sounds. Slow and looping beat.
*6. Tiny clicky/fluttery sounds under tense tones and what sounds like a sampled timpani that keeps changing pitch. Breathy sound added last two minutes. Blends into next track.
7. Breathy sounds that fade in and out quickly, tabla sound, gets more clustered/dense towards the end, more percussion added.
8. Fuller – fast fluttery beats under/over drones.
9. 25 seconds. Ha, like flipping channels between sound cameras that monitor various bodily processes.
10. Subtle heart-beat/deep wave sounds, under skittery electronic beats. Also what sounds like a tiny xylophone played with hyper-speed mallets.
11. Fitting title – “Sculpture by Erosion” – tiny beats all on top of each other softly machine-gunning away, with a few strange sound-creatures popping up including – whoa! Nintendo sounds, which are surprising here – this CD rocks!
**12. Ha, funny – breath sounds, whistling, and a gentle machine gun!
13. Again tiny fluttery beats – a return to the first track with the night-time nature scape sound.

Track Listing
1. Polyps   8. Solar Flare/Magnetic Shell
2. This Again!   9. The Bottom Of The Bucket
3. Psate Your Ingo In The Existing One   10. Bee Sting
4. Organelles   11. Sculpture By Erosion
5. Lying In Grass, Gazing Upwards At 11:30pm   12. A Warehouse Collapses In Reverse
6. A Mistake   13. Lunar Flare
7. Some Held Breaths   .