Ivan Pavlov aka CoH characterizes his latest solo work,Radiant Faults,as “the recording of a dialogue,” rather than a set of compositions. Crafted using a rare new synthesizer,the Silhouette Eins, Pavlov’s first encounter with the instrument across a long, late night session resultedin a continuous set of textures, patterns, and subliminal melodies. Atsome point during the process, he realized he was not alone: “It was as ifsomething was speaking to me through the gear–the feeling was very intense.No matter how determined and specific I attempted to be, theresults were something else. They felt like responses.’ This instantly reminded me of ELpH. ”ELpHis the name coined by Coil for a “celestial entity” that emanates from electronic equipment at mysterious moments, altering the creative process in unforeseen ways. They devised the term during studio sessions back in 1994, during which sustained software accidents ultimately seemed possessed of supernatural intelligence, spawning its own mythos. As a longtime member of Coil’s inner circle, Pavlov issteeped in ELpH’s ideology and influence–and highly qualified to identifyan encounter of his own.Radiant Faultsoffers a compelling addition tothe ELpH canon, at the threshold of music and manifestation, embracingthe “divine quality of error. ”The Silhouette Eins is a unique instrument combining the 1920s conceptof an “optical soundtrack” with a hardware synth interface to Pure Data: avisual programming language for producing interactive music, using real-time video signal in its synthesis of sound. Pavlov’s attemptedmanipulations were answered by in decipherable transmissions from some distant, unknowable place. Stark waveforms drone and bend against skeletal metronomes; murmured pulses flicker down emptycorridors; high fluorescent tones gleam and glitch in zero gravity–themood throughout is one of generative whispers, hidden sentience, andghosts in the machinery. A post-human terrain of scaffolding, shadows,and semi-conscious circuitry, rippling with veiled energies. Authorship aside, Pavlov’s process is transformative: “What we perceiveas an error or mistake could very well be a message coming through. Andwhile we are not able to decipher the message, sometimes–just like from a crack in a surface, or a tear in fabric–a light unexpectedly seeps through.” TRACKLISTING A1. Habitable A2. Faster Depth A3. Reflections A4. Circuit Hum A5. Eloquent B1. Invisible Friend I B2. Angels Of Combat B3. Invisible Friend Ii B4. Recurrent & Ephemera * B5. Nereides *CD: Same As LP + After Recurrent & Ephemera Ask Protection And Before Nereides
