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Vital Weekly
Patrick McGinley, also known as Murmer, has built since the mid 90s a body work of that deals with field recordings and electronics - in that order. Some of these works are based on pure field recordings, and these are gathered on 'Framework 1-4', a double disc with a good solid two hours of his work. Pure field recordings however doesn't mean that we have four long pieces of one sound event that goes on for an infinite amount of time. In some cases, for instance in 'Framework 2' and 'Framework 3' various events are layered so there is indeed a composition of some kind and in 'Framework 1' various events are placed in short fragments, one after another. We have the four pieces that make up 'Framework' as well as four interludes, the most recent of the four main pieces. Pure sound scaping is perhaps not really my kind of music, I was thinking recently, and perhaps I like some 'adjustment' taking place, some interference or perhaps better: some kind of composition. It's perhaps as such that I like this Murmer quite a lot. It's not overtly composed in the strict sense of composing, but there have been adjustments. Especially when McGinley is layering various sound events together, such as in 'Framework 3 [Swarm]'. Then these sound events become music in my ears, they start singing, buzzing, and occasionally making a jump move and change the scenery. I prefer that over the more straight forward documenting of single sound events. A very fine work here, maybe a bit long altogether. (FdW)
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