Filter Feeder
Pleasure Cycle/Peak Oil/13/11 12" (E44)
Julian Doyle is an electronic composer, percussionist and DJ. Equal passions
for rhythm and sound exploration are combined in Filter Feeder’s recordings
and live performances by way of an electro-accoustic set up using self-built
percussion instruments which are amplified and densely processed, alongside
vintage analogue drum synthesisers which are further processed in real-time.
Found sound and field recordings are also frequently utilised.
The three tracks on this 12" were all recorded in single takes during studio
sessions between 2005-6.
See also Filter Feeder (E8), Filter Feeder (E20) and Outposts
First edition of 200 copies.
£8.50
Filter Feeder’s set-up, Aalst 2007. Photograph by Esther Venrooy
Julian Doyle, aka Filter Feeder, takes sound sources as diverse as raw
waveforms, washing machines or the human voice and filters and layers
them “until I have something that comes alive”. On Pleasure Cycle, the
sounds are thin, reedy and microtonal, but the pendulum-like rhythmic
loops Doyle sets up slowly became naggingly eerie. The track’s signature
two-note pulse suggests some kind of siren being experienced through
a hallucinogenically altered haze. Doyle has an intuitive and expressive
touch with his microtonal explorations, however, always returning
elliptically to warm overtones and lending an almost amniotic warmth to
this fine track.
Derek Walmsley in The Wire