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Matt Davignon: Bwoo



Our own Matt Davignon's latest CD 'Bwoo' has been reviewed in the August
issue of WIRE magazine (see below). Congratulations Matt !!!

Michael Peters
www.michaelpeters.de

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MATT DAVIGNON
BWOO
EDGETONE CD
Reviewed by Chris Sharp

Over the last ten years or so, Matt Davignon has been developing an
improvisational and refreshingly untutored approach to electronic music
making. His surreptitiously evolving pieces float forth free from sampler
grids and timecodes, twisting and turning through untrammelled space. It's
tempting to describe his latest offering as an extended drum solo -
tempting, but too flip to do this music justice. As often happens in art -
from the Petrarch sonnet to the Lomo camera - creativity can often flower
brilliantly through and around self-imposed restrictions. In this
instance,the restriction is more daunting than most. Bwoo was composed and
performed using just one instrument - a drum machine. Amazingly, this
spartan approach yields expansive, multi-hued results - this is no
kick/snare/hi-hat desert. Davignon coaxes a shifting, kaleidoscopic
ecosystem from his chosen black box - from the slowly flourishing drones of
"Pad" to the insectoid susurrations of "Flam Ratio", to the quivering,
delicate feedback and staccato woodblocks of "96 Clocks". The title track 
is
a coy succession of hesitant drones, while the closing "Init All" is
stately, almost ceremonious; plucked, mournful chords summoned from some
alien cloister to disintegrate gradually in our unfamiliar gravitational
system.

http://www.edgetonerecords.com/davignon.html