Electronic/Review Xperi-Lab - Dialog with Machines
Xperi-Lab is an experimental music producer from Canada. Creation without limits. Here, everything is permitted. Random ideas used in this album: granular synths treated by granular synthesis sequences of different lengths in order to avoid structure repetition, track modulation, and tape manipulation. Re-resampling. Serial and parallel effect chains.
The second experimental ambient album by Xperi-Lab, "Dialog with Machines," is a captivating exploration of the mutually beneficial interaction between humans and technology. This album offers listeners an immersive, multi-layered experience that unveils new details with every listen, making it feel like a musical homage to the instruments and machinery that influence contemporary music-creation. Here, Xperi-Lab's distinctive sound design—which effortlessly blends electronic and organic elements—takes center stage. The result is a soundtrack that seems both futuristic and firmly grounded in a tactile, natural environment.
The songs showcase Xperi-Lab's love of discovery and reinvention as they alternate between pensive, mellow moods and more upbeat, rhythmic sections. The intricacy of "Dialog with Machines" is what makes it so complicated; rather than using loud drops or dramatic crescendos, songs gradually develops its textures and tones to resemble the soft hum of a machine at work. Nevertheless, there's a distinct human element to the sound design, as though Xperi-Lab is always speaking with the machines he's paying tribute to.
The ingenuity and accuracy here will be appreciated by fans of ambient and experimental electronic music, as Xperi-Lab takes his audience on an audible, cerebral journey. This album's calm intricacy is what makes it so beautiful; it's music that begs for listening, with each listen revealing a new angle and layer to explore. "Dialog with Machines" seems to be a challenge to reconsider how we use the instruments of creation, questioning the line that separates the natural from the artificial and, in the end, applauding the coexistence of the two.