Puzzle Music, by Madalyn Merkey

Puzzle Music

by Madalyn Merkey

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Miles Egan Almost hard to believe such a rich variety of sounds and moods was coaxed out of a single synth. This is a real master class in imaginative, evocative sound design. Favorite track: Pallet fork.

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1.	Pinion 08:03	buy track
2.	Pallet fork 06:57	buy track
3.	Hairspring 07:25	buy track
4.	Clutch 04:00	buy track
5.	Click 06:32	buy track
6.	Escape wheel 05:05	buy track
7.	Puzzle music 05:01	buy track

about

“Puzzle Music is the desire to create images out of diverse pieces of sound. To collect timbral colours in a gradient procession and connect them until they create reason. Principally not knowing how the image will turn out, or what the picture even is. It is the act of placing sound shapes next to one another in the hope that clarity will gradually be revealed.

When grouping the songs together I was thinking of them as mechanisms in a timepiece. I have something of an obsession with Swiss watchmaking, although I think this stems from a desire for creative mastery and the design of an energy source independent of electronic needs. Hopefully the songs all serve a purpose towards the end goal of the album... but also, the way the Oberheim Xpander pans sounds is in a very clear circular pattern, which makes me think of gears turning.”

- Madalyn Merkey

Interior sounds from Madalyn in an album that flits between eerie ambience, environment, and hermetic logic. The music’s timing and sequencing feels distant, the elegant constructions conjured and organised semi-consciously, drawing the listener deeper into the dream and towards a zone where watch hands tick forward accurately and their perception of time unspools. Here each neatly tuned conversation and clockwork assemblage harmonises, spinning tantalisingly just out of range and understanding.

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released February 1, 2022

Artwork by Casey Leung
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer @ Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

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Madalyn Merkey Oakland, California

In 2015, Merkey translated the pioneer electronic music text, Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia (1968) by composer Enore Zaffiri (b. Turin, 1928), from Italian to English.

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