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PHILIP SULIDAE

Perplexor

Perplexor is a deference and conjecture for past and present sound. For buildings, places and possibilities; isolated through maps, images and text. Composed in 2019 from found audio, field recordings from webcams and sonic fragments, it reveals a soundtrack of archaeological remnants and shadows. 

Utilizing auditory negative space as a compositional device, Perplexor is suggestive of place and time; of moments found and lost once again. The shape and foundation of past and present are revealed through a grainy, auditive mosaic. 

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Catalog:
LINE_108
Format:
digital
Edition:
open edition
Release:
February 2020
Tracklist:

1. 904 Hamilton Street, 1970 (13:59)
2. 1098 Shamokin Street,1929 (11:15)
3. 917 Noble Street, 1894 (11:46)

Philip Sulidae is a sound artist from Australia whose practice draws on over a decade of sound art practice, focusing on field recording, phonology and acousmatic recordings. During this time he has developed a thematically and conceptually defined practice that focuses on the symbolic intent and significance of sound.

Sulidae’s works have been published by imprints including Gruenrekorder, Unfathomless, Falt and Impulsive Habitat. Additionally he curates and runs the label Hemisphäreの空虚, dedicated to releasing sound works that emphasize the use and abuse of field recordings.

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REVIEWS OF
Perplexor

  • For over a decade, Australian artist Philip Sulidae has been probing the most remote depths of sound to create his spellbindingly fragile works, with releases on Unfathomless (History of Violence, Ramshead), Verz (Glass), Linear Obsessional (Conurb), Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. (Le Voile), and his own Hemisphäreの空虚 (Variations on Plastic, Petrification and Strife), among others. His newest release, Perplexor on LINE, is a deeply conceptual work of electrical interference, delicate whispers, and empty space. Described quite ambiguously as “a deference and conjecture for past and present sound,” the set of three pieces are carefully assembled from the wispy, crumbling remnants of sounds and memories lost to time. Each acts as a humbly vague reconstruction of a particular place at a particular time, but since those times are so long ago (1970, 1929, 1894), both the reconstructor and the listener are left only with a few vestigial fixtures swathed in the ghostly shroud of all the moments that have been trampled by history’s ever-surging stampede. As we drift through the barely-substantial forms of Sulidae’s diaphanous weavings, we latch onto the few sonic landmarks that occasionally surface amidst the void—car honks, rainfall, distant clatter—but they’re gone as soon as they arrive, leaving us scrambling for purchase, a futile action when surrounded by nothingness. Perplexor, perhaps appropriately, is an uncanny experience, a skillful construction of absence-with-presence, but it is also tremendously beautiful.
    (noisenotmusic.com)