180g Coloured Vinyl, Booklet, Download Code. QUINTESENCE examines a system of elements that represent the development of the psychic process; symbols represent parts of the subconscious, telling a story of how memory may be disorientated, distorted, and dysfunctional yet acting as a linear process to individuation. Through Ricardo Donoso's score we see trace elements of these processes and symbols within the sounds themselves - within each musical decision. Donoso's score continues to advance his foray into electro-acoustic hybrids, explicitly here with the use of Spectralism. Washes of lush string trio including contrabass, cello and viola are dismembered and placed through the wringer of Donoso's custom signal processing chains. QUINTESENCE also emphasizes Donoso's skills as a sound designer, where alien textures, Xenakian computer music and massive tone clusters collide and shatter against each other for moments of either breathtaking beauty or stretches of repulsiveness.
