Pivot is the debut LP from River Y, a new project from Raudie McLeod. A turn toward a new direction of sound which is less stylistically defined and more sonically open, drawing inspiration not only from music but from technological processes of the 21st century
The project is replete with repurposing audio snippets from viral or obscure social media posts and abstracting them through technology ill fit for the purpose.
Or taking artificially generated sound sources and attempting to animate them like some sonic Frankenstein’s monster.
MIDI is used in a collage of ways, downloaded from rando internet websites and the reorganised in the DAW via software instruments. The structure of these songs can take meandering paths through textures and themes and then find themselves inside traditional compositional structures. Hints of McLeod’s past musical influences such as classical and dance can also be heard littered through the LP.
Released
July 26, 2024
July 26, 2024
Mastered by Nick Foglia