Overflow
by Rival Consoles
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I love the work of Rival consoles, this record has an experimental edge to it. A wonderful journey.
Favorite track: Pulses of Information.
Landslide Purist
Roy Gaiot
landsquid
vidiksis
Immaterial
Richmond
none
Khalid🗿
Danny
lesbobandcamp
katzuhiroo
Ben Preston
Michael McCune
J Gingold
philippvonhase
chrisesimpson
Morgan Hendry
yeil
mizsub
alsopatrick
birdobeaverhousen
Tobias Zenger
Expoded
humongouslomghonogoufungus
Tandy Kaufman
cep2plet
lavandrix
Richard Clark
Mauricio Torres
dicek-takada
Stuart Goulding
jorge saenz
j u n e
Costas Michaelides
ARCONAUT
リキ萌
Lying Dalai
dimmtwn
josh epps
dast
androdjinni
James
Don Smith
Sho Takahara
soundwreck
Brett McNeil
Kenji Yasaka
Hein?!
Runciter
ToBeFrankOrNotToBe
neonbuddha
Tilman Schmidt
debashis sinha
amanda a
peterae
wanderingsounds
notarabit
(Odorat) Colorira
alan holland
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Monster
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10:10
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£11 GBP or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumGatefold Sleeve with Screen-printed PVC Outer
Includes unlimited streaming of Overflow via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.ships out within 2 daysedition of 100Purchasable with gift card£25 GBP or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumGatefold Sleeve with Screen-printed PVC Outer
Includes unlimited streaming of Overflow via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.ships out within 2 daysedition of 100Purchasable with gift card£28 GBP or more
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumGatefold Sleeve with Screen-printed PVC Outer
Includes unlimited streaming of Overflow via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.Sold Out
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Monster
10:10
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I Like
02:08
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I like
And they were like
It's like
Like
I mean
It's like
Like when
I mean
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Hands
05:18
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Pulses of Information
04:06
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Overflow
05:36
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The Cloud Oracle
03:28
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Tension in the Cloud
03:36
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Scanning
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Flow State
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Touches Everything
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Making Sense of It All
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about
Rival Consoles returns with Overflow — a resonant and explorative soundscape of original music, composed for renowned choreographer Alexander Whitley’s contemporary dance production of the same name.
Exploring themes of the human and emotional consequences of life surrounded by data, the piece echoes the concept of social media, advertising, marketing companies and political factions exploiting our data to gain wealth, political advantage and sow division. Key reading for the project was based around the contemporary philosophical work Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han.
“The piece opens with Monster which has a kind of drunken madness to it, highly repetitive to mirror the repetitive nature of how we as humans engage with technology such as social media. It’s sometimes edging towards chaos but yet always returning back to the same starting point, but eventually giving way to exhaustion. I wanted to create a bold opening piece for Overflow,” states Ryan Lee West.
Even before the project started, the London-based producer created a lot of sketches in his home studio which acted as a starting point for Whitley to develop the choreography from. An equal amount of work was created in rehearsal, alongside the dancers, then refined at West’s studio between sessions.
“I was in the studio a lot with Alex and the dancers, trying things out throughout the process. And even during dry runs in theatres I was composing short works in the moment on my laptop that ended up being used, such as Scanning, which was made from an electromagnetic recording of the internal workings of an iPhone whilst using social media. In the big data world of social media and cookies everything is invisible, silent and hidden behind a pleasant, enticing aesthetic. I thought it would be interesting to do the opposite and have a very scratchy, mechanical, noisey scanning sound that sheds light on what is actually happening. If everytime our data was taken and sold or used, we heard a weird clicking sound, that would completely change how we perceive it.”
I Like features the mapping of data from dancer Tia Hockey’s personal monologue, which controls the volume of the chords based on the activity of her voice — drawing attention to things happening behind the curtain, invisible systems, algorithms. The album also features the previously released standalone track and slice of euphoria, Pulses of Information, which UK magazine Clash described as “a riveting return. Typically entrancing, [it] seems to encourage a form of internal dialogue, between our inner and outer selves.”
Overflow was premiered by the Alexander Whitley Dance Company in May 2021 at the Sadler’s Wells in London and is scheduled to tour through theatres in Europe in spring 2022. West will embark on a UK headline tour this autumn followed by European and North American dates in the new year. The score will be released by Erased Tapes on limited edition vinyl and CD as well as digital formats on December 3.
Exploring themes of the human and emotional consequences of life surrounded by data, the piece echoes the concept of social media, advertising, marketing companies and political factions exploiting our data to gain wealth, political advantage and sow division. Key reading for the project was based around the contemporary philosophical work Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han.
“The piece opens with Monster which has a kind of drunken madness to it, highly repetitive to mirror the repetitive nature of how we as humans engage with technology such as social media. It’s sometimes edging towards chaos but yet always returning back to the same starting point, but eventually giving way to exhaustion. I wanted to create a bold opening piece for Overflow,” states Ryan Lee West.
Even before the project started, the London-based producer created a lot of sketches in his home studio which acted as a starting point for Whitley to develop the choreography from. An equal amount of work was created in rehearsal, alongside the dancers, then refined at West’s studio between sessions.
“I was in the studio a lot with Alex and the dancers, trying things out throughout the process. And even during dry runs in theatres I was composing short works in the moment on my laptop that ended up being used, such as Scanning, which was made from an electromagnetic recording of the internal workings of an iPhone whilst using social media. In the big data world of social media and cookies everything is invisible, silent and hidden behind a pleasant, enticing aesthetic. I thought it would be interesting to do the opposite and have a very scratchy, mechanical, noisey scanning sound that sheds light on what is actually happening. If everytime our data was taken and sold or used, we heard a weird clicking sound, that would completely change how we perceive it.”
I Like features the mapping of data from dancer Tia Hockey’s personal monologue, which controls the volume of the chords based on the activity of her voice — drawing attention to things happening behind the curtain, invisible systems, algorithms. The album also features the previously released standalone track and slice of euphoria, Pulses of Information, which UK magazine Clash described as “a riveting return. Typically entrancing, [it] seems to encourage a form of internal dialogue, between our inner and outer selves.”
Overflow was premiered by the Alexander Whitley Dance Company in May 2021 at the Sadler’s Wells in London and is scheduled to tour through theatres in Europe in spring 2022. West will embark on a UK headline tour this autumn followed by European and North American dates in the new year. The score will be released by Erased Tapes on limited edition vinyl and CD as well as digital formats on December 3.
credits
released December 3, 2021
Director / Choreographer: Alexander Whitley
Light Sculpture: Children of the Light
Creative Technologist: Luca Biada / Fenyce
Lighting Design: Guy Hoare
Costume Design: Ana Rajcevic
Dancers: Joshua Attwood / Hannah Ekholm Tia Hockey / David Ledger Jack Thomson / Yu-Hsien Wu
Music: Ryan Lee West
Published by Erased Tapes Music
Commissioned by Alexander Whitley Dance Company for Overflow
Supported by Sadler’s Wells, Arts Council England and PRS Foundation for Music.
Mastering Engineer: Aneek Thapar
Photograph: Elliott Franks
Artwork Design: Robert Raths
℗© 2021 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
All tapes erased.
Director / Choreographer: Alexander Whitley
Light Sculpture: Children of the Light
Creative Technologist: Luca Biada / Fenyce
Lighting Design: Guy Hoare
Costume Design: Ana Rajcevic
Dancers: Joshua Attwood / Hannah Ekholm Tia Hockey / David Ledger Jack Thomson / Yu-Hsien Wu
Music: Ryan Lee West
Published by Erased Tapes Music
Commissioned by Alexander Whitley Dance Company for Overflow
Supported by Sadler’s Wells, Arts Council England and PRS Foundation for Music.
Mastering Engineer: Aneek Thapar
Photograph: Elliott Franks
Artwork Design: Robert Raths
℗© 2021 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
All tapes erased.
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Rival Consoles London, UK
London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound
human and atmospheric.
It’s rarely reported that Rival Consoles was Erased Tapes’ very first signing, with a CDR of early demos under the name Aparatec that inspired founder Robert Raths to start the label in 2007.
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