The London-based duo are made up of Peter Marsh, whose extensive use of stringed instruments provides the basis for their work, and Conor Curran, who is responsible for manipulating it until it’s a ghost of its former self. Like Christian Fennesz, they work in the margins of electronic music
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Much of Sonnamble’s work is improvised, but there’s an art to what they do: Curran’s homemade software seems able to reduce every note down to its even smaller constituent parts and then sieve out what suits their goal
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It’s like moving one’s face ever closer to a TV screen, with the picture slowly reduced from an overall pattern to a mass of pixels. What is experienced isn’t identifiable in any standard sense, but is nonetheless fascinating.
Obviously, then, Sonnamble’s approach is an intellectual one, with melody and rhythm alien concepts. Yet these ambient, floating, minimalist soundscapes still have the ability to emote, partially due to the oddly physical nature of the individual elements: they fizz and they fray, they tap and they pop - Wyndham Wallace, BBC Music
- ARTIST :
- SONNAMBLE
- LOCATION :
- LONDON
- WHEN :
- 2008 - 2011
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