Microcorps - XMIT LP

MICROCORPS is the new project by artist and musician Alex Tucker (Grumbling Fur, Alexander Tucker, Imbogodom) exploring electronics, cello and voice. The debut release XMIT is an eight-track album featuring collaborations with Gazelle Twin, Nik Void, Simon Fisher Turner, and Astrud Steehouder. Tucker's ever-evolving sound world continues to unfold with this collection of harsh realms centered around processed electronic systems, strings, and vocal manipulations. On the new album, MICROCORPS employs altered voices, sound synthesis and atomized beat constructions. In a move away from previous projects XMITinvestigates erasing the self, removing obvious traits of the hand and voice, and allowing a focus on the humanoid rather than the human. Instead of recognizable lyrics and coherent imagery, MICROCORPS evolved synthesized voices to generate alternate characters. He expands, "I was investigating how language brings our world into being and how manipulating the actual grain of the voice c