![]() Craig’s music combines virtuoso vocalizations with “analogue synthesizers, reel-to-reel machines, and faulty tape decks to create,” according to the artist’s website, “sublime cascades of unpredictable decay and beauty.” Indeed his latest, and most accomplished, album, Centres, continuously foregrounds the kind of degradation and deterioration that take place when the magnetic tape on which music is recorded is stretched or slashed, the vinyl of a record is scratched or covered with dust, the batteries of the radio that broadcast a sound piece are depleted, and the cones of speakers torn: this music celebrates the inevitable action of entropy on the surfaces where sound is inscribed and within the machines that reproduce it. He trained as an opera singer, but in the last few years he has been producing records of his own compositions. Ian William Craig was born thirty-six years ago in Edmonton, Alberta. Ian William Craig, Centres , FatCat, 2016 ![]()
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