Description
Althoff assembles a collage of audio excerpts from his own live performances given between 2008 and 2023, beginning with concert events and ending with some backyard recordings. His aim was to make a long composition with subtle development utilising his last 15 years of kinetic machine-based performances. As always, the recordings are crisp, multi-layered, polyrhythmic soundworlds that envelope the listener.
“Assistance” amounts to a curious time capsule, showing not how an environment sounded, but how audiences listened to that environment while listening to music. More than mere field recordings “Assistance” results from a complex, unfiltered embrace of making sound into music, in a world already full of music in sound – Philip Brophy, The Wire.
