Pieter Dudal & Adriaan de Roover are set to release their collaborative album “pivot rotations” next month – a continuously mixed collage of tape loops largely taken from recordings made at live shows in Ghent, Brussels, and Meakusma Festival in Eupen.
Operating through analogue machinery, Dudal & de Roover embrace imperfection — letting loops sing, drift, and distort through physical manipulation and faulty equipment. Pivot Rotations captures over two years of collaboration between the two electro-acoustic experimentalists, each with a distinct body of work to their name.
Adriaan de Roover has spent over a decade working as an electronic musician, installation artist, and score composer, with releases on Dauw, Consouling Sounds, and Fog Mountain. His work spans a wide range of scales and sonic textures. Dudal – founder and curator of Dauw and Blickwinkel, and a monthly resident on Kiosk Radio – operates primarily within the electro-acoustic realm, crafting tape-loop atmospheres that evolve slowly into melodic form.
“b” is the third track on the album, although its arrival becomes unnoticeable during the listening experience, as it drifts seamlessly between motifs and textures. The piece, and much of the album by that matter, is smothered in the warm fuzz of tape hiss – providing a comfortable constant throughout the piece for the mind to drift into.
This underpins a lethargic, tumbling piano loop, lulling the listener into a slumber that is carried into various different moods and locations via the use of fragmented melodies, reverb washes, and complex filtering – finally blossoming and then wilting into a single element of harmonic ambience.
“pivot rotations” is scheduled for release on 21st November via Viernulvier Records. Order a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. a
2. ab
3. b
4. bc
5. c
6. cd
7. d
8. e