{"id":5329,"date":"2016-01-19T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:17:16","slug":"linked-bts-opus-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/linked-bts-opus-of-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “BT’s Opus of Discovery”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via DJMac:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBut those formative experiences of discovering music are now different,\u201d he says with nostalgia. \u201cYou go to a SoundCloud link and it\u2019s no wonder people\u2019s attention spans are less than 11 seconds. People click through a freaking waveform and formulate an opinion about something in an instant.\u201d For all the good that technology has brought us, there is an equally powerful downside: \u201cNow, because you have everything on the internet, there\u2019s an immediacy that is decreasing people’s understanding of the joy of discovery of music.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

BT suggests that those who loved \u2018This Binary Universe\u2019, his critically acclaimed 2006 experimental\/IDM album, will appreciate this upcoming album for its similarly modular, ambient aesthetic. \u201cThe entire record is recorded in a way I\u2019ve never recorded anything before,\u201d he explains. Where \u2018This Binary Universe\u2019 was optimized to be experienced on a set of high-end monitors, this new album is a multi-sensory experience, an impressive audio installation that can be seen, heard and felt. It is delivered in HD sound, beyond lossless quality, and at over 1GB per song it is worth every byte of space taken up on a hard drive. <\/em><\/p>\n

The unnamed album is geometric, architectural. It imparts a sense of shifting structures, as if BT is building something across dimensions that spans past, present and future. With eyes closed, we can see the sound undulating through its various forms in an electronic metamorphosis. We can hear the story of our galaxy, its birth, life and death. We are swept through places long gone and yet to become. It is mystical and mechanistic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian is the first electronic artist I ever opted-in to listening to. I had heard of other artists but as far as going to the store and buying a CD, Brian was my first. It was 2002 when he and I were sharing private mails on MySpace and we connected later on Twitter and met up a few times and every time I sat with Brian to talk, it\u2019s just awe-inspiring how intelligent he is and how optimistic he is about life and the world. He loves everyone and his approach to life is apparent in his music.<\/p>\n

Anything he does, I\u2019ll buy because he\u2019s never put out a product that wasn\u2019t perfect in every way.<\/p>\n

I listen to an album of his new or old once a week and the upcoming project sounds remarkable.<\/p>\n

I quoted the initial part of the interview because it\u2019s a valid point. Music discovery is remarkably easy. Finding great music is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via DJMac: \u201cBut those formative experiences of discovering music are now different,\u201d he says with nostalgia. \u201cYou go…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"a93b36ff-2207-4f86-b56e-2b5f5a87004d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqTs2_yIHT4a1bitfWocATQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1nX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2098,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/chemical-brothers-live-at-ultra-music-festival-13-a-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":5329,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Chemical Brothers live at Ultra Music Festival 13 – A Review","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I got my first car when I was 15. 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