Compressed Knowledge [Cassette]

Radio Species - Compressed Knowledge [Cassette]

Scavenger tones and scrambled cassette residue drift across the surface of Compressed Knowledge, a quietly astonishing new work by Philadelphia-based sound artist Tyler Games, operating here as Radio Species. Following releases on Regional Bears, Irrational Tentent, and his own now-defunct Born Physical Form imprint, Games works in a space between musique concrete, tape collage, and microsound, using an economy of gesture to create a suite of fundamentally elusive compositions. Harmonic loops stutter and fold in on themselves, hazy rhythms break free from their clocks, snatches of speech cut out mid-thought as a layer of room tone and tape gunk holds everything in suspension. There's a sense of broadcast without a source, flickering across half-tuned frequencies -- hinting at formal structures while continually slipping away from them. The result is not archival in the traditional sense, but archaeological: these tracks are partial objects, pulled from the noise floor of memory. In its refusal to resolve into stable meaning or musical form, this is work that draws from traditions of sound ethnography, experimental documentation, and concrete montage -- where listening itself becomes a mode of speculative reconstruction. 01. Canoe (1:25)_x000D_ 02. Rhizome (2:54)_x000D_ 03. Combustible Stir (2:29)_x000D_ 04. Vastu (7:01)_x000D_ 05. High Tech Wood Burning (0:50)_x000D_ 06. Compressed Knowledge (2:44)_x000D_ 07. Apiary (4:36)_x000D_ 08. Membrane Sequencer (1:36)_x000D_ 09. Enzyme (3:32)