Overflow, by Rival Consoles

Overflow

by Rival Consoles

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pvmt7 Inspiration from a different dimension....exquisite

Odd Great album. Vangelis level, but different.

drxian awesome! love the cover art also! this and HAUNT...who is the artist?

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1.	Monster 10:10		buy track
2.	I Like 02:08	lyrics	buy track
I like And they were like It's like Like I mean It's like Like when I mean
3.	Hands 05:18		buy track
4.	Pulses of Information 04:06		buy track
5.	Noise Call and Response I 04:20		buy track
6.	Overflow 05:36		buy track
7.	The Cloud Oracle 03:28		buy track
8.	Tension in the Cloud 03:36		buy track
9.	Noise Call and Response II 08:37		buy track
10.	Scanning 04:27		buy track
11.	Flow State 11:53		buy track
12.	Touches Everything 05:04		buy track
13.	Making Sense of It All 03:08		buy track

about

Rival Consoles returns with a new album — a resonant and explorative soundscape of original music, composed for renowned choreographer Alexander Whitley’s contemporary dance production Overflow, and shares bold opening track Monster.

Exploring themes of the human and emotional consequences of life surrounded by data, the piece echoes the concept of social media, advertising, marketing companies and political factions exploiting our data to gain wealth, political advantage and sow division. Key reading for the project was based around the contemporary philosophical work Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han.

“The piece opens with Monster which has a kind of drunken madness to it, highly repetitive to mirror the repetitive nature of how we as humans engage with technology such as social media. It’s sometimes edging towards chaos but yet always returning back to the same starting point, but eventually giving way to exhaustion. I wanted to create a bold opening piece for Overflow,” states Ryan Lee West.

Even before the project started, the London-based producer created a lot of sketches in his home studio which acted as a starting point for Whitley to develop the choreography from. An equal amount of work was created in rehearsal, alongside the dancers, then refined at West’s studio between sessions.

“I was in the studio a lot with Alex and the dancers, trying things out throughout the process. And even during dry runs in theatres I was composing short works in the moment on my laptop that ended up being used, such as Scanning, which was made from an electromagnetic recording of the internal workings of an iPhone whilst using social media. In the big data world of social media and cookies everything is invisible, silent and hidden behind a pleasant, enticing aesthetic. I thought it would be interesting to do the opposite and have a very scratchy, mechanical, noisey scanning sound that sheds light on what is actually happening. If everytime our data was taken and sold or used, we heard a weird clicking sound, that would completely change how we perceive it.”

I Like features the mapping of data from dancer Tia Hockey’s personal monologue, which controls the volume of the chords based on the activity of her voice — drawing attention to things happening behind the curtain, invisible systems, algorithms. The album also features the previously released standalone track and slice of euphoria, Pulses of Information, which UK magazine Clash described as “a riveting return. Typically entrancing, [it] seems to encourage a form of internal dialogue, between our inner and outer selves.”

Overflow was premiered by the Alexander Whitley Dance Company in May 2021 at the Sadler’s Wells in London and is scheduled to tour through theatres in Europe in spring 2022. West will embark on a UK headline tour this autumn followed by European and North American dates in the new year. The score will be released by Erased Tapes on limited edition vinyl and CD as well as digital formats on December 3.

credits

released December 3, 2021

Director / Choreographer: Alexander Whitley

Light Sculpture: Children of the Light
Creative Technologist: Luca Biada / Fenyce
Lighting Design: Guy Hoare
Costume Design: Ana Rajcevic

Dancers: Joshua Attwood / Hannah Ekholm Tia Hockey / David Ledger Jack Thomson / Yu-Hsien Wu

Music: Ryan Lee West
Published by Erased Tapes Music
Commissioned by Alexander Whitley Dance Company for Overflow
Supported by Sadler’s Wells, Arts Council England and PRS Foundation for Music.

Mastering Engineer: Aneek Thapar

Photograph: Elliott Franks
Artwork Design: Robert Raths

℗© 2021 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
All tapes erased.

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Rival Consoles London, UK

London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound human and atmospheric.

It’s rarely reported that Rival Consoles was Erased Tapes’ very first signing, with a CDR of early demos under the name Aparatec that inspired founder Robert Raths to start the label in 2007. ... more

shows

May 11

Dumbo / Binario Centrale

Bologna, Italy
May 31

Barking Park

Barking, UK
Jun 21

Glendalough Estate

Wicklow, Ireland
Sep 19

Salle Pleyel

Paris, France
Sep 26

Columbiahalle

Berlin, Germany

discography

Coda

Jun 2023
Spirit Loop

Mar 2023
Now Is

Oct 2022
Echoes

Jun 2022

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