THE SEEN - ONCA Gallery audio

THE SEEN Onca Gallery, Brighton 2018-11-07

Chris Kiefer  :  feedback cello /  Alice Eldridge  :  feedback cello

Luigi Marino  :  bowed cymbals  /  Paul Khimasia Morgan  :  guitar body

Bill Thompson  :  guitar, electronics  /  Phil Durrant  :  modular synth

Mark Wastell  :  tam tam, gongs, cymbal

"Moving through various sections like taking the scenic route across itself, it included feedback, full-on ambient sound sources and stuff that might have actually come from some kind of instrument. It was numinous and exploratory – like exploring the rooms of some old mansion, your every sense stimulated and alert."

- Gavin Burrows, Lucid Frenzy Junior

"THE SEEN moves in mercurial striations, with constantly shifting threads and beacons of focus that feed into each other while congruently being fed back in to the mix. Throughout, the beguiling semaphore of ideas subsumes any thought of individual voices, creating a web which subtly metamorphoses over time in non-linear intertwined systems. Burred electronics, shimmering reverberations, percussive cracks, skirling whistles, fluttering tones, and dive-bomb oscillations eschew arcs and trajectories, instead, relishing in the instability of the mesh of interlaced collective interaction.  THE SEEN operates in an analogous fashion, with each of the members maximising the dynamic synergies and tensions of timbres, densities, dynamics, and resonances of sound serving as both reciprocated input and output." 

- Michael Rosenstein