As usual it's embraced in a gatefold cover with silver spike. Individual tracks are indexed and titled, but I found this an unnecessary editing process. It starts gracefully with warm analogue synthesiser set to random - soft wings flutter close stirring motes of settled dust, sweeping across the space in slow arcs. Subtle effects swoop in filling the corners with a low, dark pastel drone. Quiet protestations and trickling flutes flit by.
Gradual slopes are ascended, but it seems as if our progress is halted before reaching the summit.
A carefully constructed hint of a great mystery and one to listen to forever. This CD is the first in a series of compositions which 'explore the synergy between the man-made worlds of architecture and electronic music'. I've always been interested in interfacing intelligent buildings to sound generators, so took this home for a listen. The booklet administers gushing praise on a Japanese architect, Toyo Ito, whose 'Tower Of Winds', a structure in Yokohama provided the inspiration for the pieces on this CD, yet no technical details are provided about the way in which the music was generated, except to say that the composers developed 'a production technique that enabled them to compose a body of music by manipulating sound without the use of keyboards or other traditional input devices'. So my curiosity is not satisfied.