Carlos Giffoni
Adult Life

THE REVIEW

Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan artist residing in New York. This is Adult Life, released by No Fun Production, 2008.

Sounds like they are generated by an army of rusty synthesizers, powered against their nature, the screeching of saws, saturated sine waves, inlays of small frequency portions that rarely collapse into white crashes (“This Is How You Pull The Trigger”). A meticulous control of reused electronics, debris of machines upon which patterns and regularity are reordered.

Relationships between waves without any hierarchy of superimposed lines, but a merging of roles, where the differences are not distances but new elements. Modulated and modulating compete against their will for cognitive primacy. Subtractions and beats bring forth new rhythms from an unconscious dimension. There is no privileged point of view, but a perception that, made compulsive, oscillates between different focuses.

Additions that reveal new aspects of sound (“An Endless Mirror”) in dizzying tricks along the Fletcher-Munson curve. Only to realize that you are still in the previous position, the object has remained unchanged, and the new is only a different perspective, a new condition of the subject. All in a recursive process of returning, in a loop. And the panning of “A Permanent Choice” becomes from production technique to concept beyond music.

And this is an adult conception. In which the subject does not simply receive, but understands that the current awareness is not an exclusive object, it is also the result of an underlying dimension or a constitutive element of a higher one. Not definitive in space, time, or relationships. An active, mobile perception, and for every new perspective a new level of life/reality. No dictatorship of interpretations but simultaneous possibilities.