Preliminary Saturation

Wouter Jaspers returns to Muzan with his long time collaborator and friend Steffan de Turck as Preliminary Saturation. Summer Breeze is an ambient-noise album that lives up to its name for just how pleasurable it is to listen to. The music box melody that provides the main theme for “across the floor” functions as a soft counterpoint to the noises and drones that pulse and slide beneath it, evoking images of sunlight and slow stretching shadows. “the house next door” strikes a darker, more myste…

* Edition of 100 * Wouter Jaspers returns to Muzan with his long time collaborator and friend Steffan de Turck as Preliminary Saturation. Summer Breeze is an ambient-noise album that lives up to its name for just how pleasurable it is to listen to. The music box melody that provides the main theme for “across the floor” functions as a soft counterpoint to the noises and drones that pulse and slide beneath it, evoking images of sunlight and slow stretching shadows. “the house next door” strikes a…

A remix/recycle project by Preliminary Saturation (Steffan de Turck and Wouter Jaspers) built entirely from Jos Smolders's Textures and Mobiles (CONV, 2004), an album originally derived from a strictly limited palette of DTMF and CCITT telephone tones and pure interfering sine waves. The duo reprocesses Smolders's source material and folds in their own additions across tape, contact microphones, field recording and synthesis. A recursive electroacoustic exercise within a closed lineage.