Nowadays, clock time measures events. Yet in the past, events
measured time. On his album THIS WORLD (55'28"), M Bentley
presents two extended pieces dealing with our fluctuating
perception of time. "Chronos & Kairos" (40'21") is a tranquil,
somnolent ambient meditation in six movements. On this piece,
Bentley opens a space and softly fills it with sound. Within a
dreamlike stillness a line may be traced along the vague arc of
this work's odd tonal narrative. "Chronos & Kairos" is a quiet and
dominantly electronic music of an impressionistic nature. Minus
the accompanying video, the listener is inundated with his or her
own mental images. "Import" (15'00") deals less with
enharmonic tone clusters and comforting atmospherics than it
does with dramatic timbral and thematic shifts. Sources such as
field recordings, found sounds and muted drum loops are
juxtaposed with a range of transmuting synthesized and
sampled sounds to produce a fascinating surrealistic
soundscape. Gritty, soothing, eerie, antiseptic, bionomic and
sometimes minimalistic to the point of dissolving, THIS WORLD
is an interactive ambient experience which will be regarded as
completely unique with each encounter.

Tune into STAR'S END this weekend for music from THIS
WORLD by M Bentley

For more on THIS WORLD, access: http://www.foundrysite.com

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org