One last Electroton 3' mini-CD, this time from Ketem, a joint collaboration by Shay Nassi (aka mise_en_scene) and Tom Kemeny (aka darmock) both from Tel Aviv. This is the briefest of these little Electronton CDs I've received with four tracks clocking in less than 10 minutes. It is also the oddest.

On 'Colour,' the music sounds more like code than anything resembling any kind of traditional music in just about any genre. Perhaps this is cyber-language translated into audio. High and low frequency tones of intermittent lengths are juxtaposed with one another in various assembled patterns, sometimes repeated, sometimes seemingly random. The sound is bone dry minimal with only a certain few timbres on the palette. Often it sounds like a hearing test, and I listened under headphones I had to check my reflexes from the urge to point at one ear or the other.

This is the kind of intellectual-experimental music that I think might require a deeper study or commitment to get, and I daresay most listeners are probably not willing to invest the time or though to 'cracking the code.' Although there is a sense of rhythm, the compositions have been deconstructed to their absolute minimal components with scant tonal variation. Perhaps some visual stimulus might have enhanced the audio here, as it stands alone, I'm just not grasping the merit in it. Fortunately, with only four brief tracks, it's not intolerable, merely an exercise in the infinitesimal.