In the spring of 2019 Void and Tucker convened at Void’s Demna Studio to record two days of modular improvisations. Using their individualised modular cases they connected the two configurations to create one whole system where they could integrate and meld sequences, beats, drones and samples. Key to the duo’s process was bringing the organic textures of guitar, cello and voice together with machine rhythms, creating a balance between circuitry and the human body. Void says: “Straight away, it was clear that it was going to work out. We were both interested in the combination of voice, with the string tones of cello and guitars. There was some kind of unique sound language going on between us. It didn’t matter if we went on to produce a beat-oriented track, or a drone track, it sounded like it was in our world.”
The duo edited down the raw recordings into their crucial moments, expanding upon the improvisations into eight cohesive pieces.

Sleep Nameless Fear carves out a world of heavy percussive patterns, monolithic drones, disembodied voices and noise frequency manipulation into one detailed vortex. “It definitely feels like a real melding of our two projects, with Nik’s solo work and my MICROCORPS alias” says Tucker. “We’d assemble the building blocks as we were going along, making complex patches circulating between our two setups. We made sure to laminate both our sounds into one whole sound.”

Over the course of the album you can hear each artist's half of this tightly intertwined sound, Tucker’s skittering sequences and treated cello and Voids’ assured pummels, drones and guitar noise. With the combination of their voices processed into spectral transmissions the album hovers between human manipulation and guided machine systems.






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