Audio Computing

The work Audio Computing has a very long history, important for many reasons. The first recording sessions of Audio Computing began (under the working title Psychophysicist II) with Adi Newton and Paul Prudence in 2016 and then continued throughout 2017. Later interrupted, the sessions for Audio Computing resumed in 2022, then continued in 2023, with Adi Newton and Fabio Kubic. Adi Newton and Jacques Beloeil worked throughout the spring of 2023 and early summer on the production, equalization, and mastering of the album, which to call hypnotic, cohesive, and granitic in its minimal severity is an understatement.

This album has a sculpted sound, and this is truly due to the patient work of Jacques Beloeil, to whom all the work is dedicated, as he left us suddenly on June 26, 2023. This is the last album he worked on before he died. It has his soul within the sounds. It is his sonic testament and therefore has a very special importance for Adi Newton and for all of Armcomm Rizosfera Europe. The album Audio Computing has as its conceptual origin the work of the Soviet acoustics theorist Boris Yankovsky. Boris Yankovsky (1904-1973) worked with the Multzvuk group as a pupil of Arseny Avraamov at Mosfilm, Moscow, from 1931 to 1932. However, he grew disenchanted with what he considered to be an oversimplified way of approaching acoustics. Yankovsky realized that pure uniform waveforms do not represent timbre and that a more complex spectral approach needed to be developed. In 1932, Yankovsky left Multzvuk to pursue his ideas of spectral analysis, decomposition, and re-synthesis.