This album is based on the recordings of the "ATAK NIGHT4" tour of Europe, Japan and several other Asian countries in early 2009, and was eventually completed in Tokyo at the end of the year. The unprecedented sound such as "structured timbre", which was realized by an application of the complex systems theory, "The Third Term Music project", is skillfully composed by evala, as to reveal both mechanical and organic rhythmic sounds. "ttm studies 08" finds a sound artist repeatedly exploring those multiple time evolutions as "the pattern of momentary moving sound" by cellular automata and logistic map, or the co-evolution dynamics of tape and machine in "the pattern of open-end sound development." The result is a full driving, drastic crossover of texture and groove.
The Third Term Music Project: A research project which evala is a member of, was founded by Takashi Ikegami [University of Tokyo], a scholar in the area of Complex Systems Science, and Keiichiro Shibuya [ATAK], a sound artist and composer, aims for creating music not by the frequency-based intramusical thought, but the extramusical thought based on the application of evolutionary algorithms, chaos, nonlinear physics and complex systems.
[i don't know what all this technical/musical stuff described above means, but i know i love this album -watch him "live" if you have the chance-] (с) nollavuotta.blogspot.com