Mark Cetilia: Anemoi

Maybe the name Mark Cetilia doesn't ring an immediate bell, but he is a member of Mem1, part of Redux, curator of Ctrl+Alt+Repeat festival and travels the world to do residencies. 'Anemoi' can be seen as a sort of conceptual work. Cetilia created a square loop antenna 'capable of detecting any changes in the electro magnetic field with 10 miles: lightning, atmospheric conditions'. Shortly after he created this antenna, power was cut because of a tropical storm flying over. In his piece he tries to recreate that experience, picking up all those signals, and avoiding any radio sounds. The first ten minutes sound like long wave crackles and then dies out. In the second half a more drone like sound builds slowly up and then dies out again. Quite a nice atmospheric (pun intended) release. If you wouldn't know any better, you could all too easily think this is some laptop musician doodling around with plug in stuff, but after you read the story on the cover you know better. Great piece of a nice concept turned into a nice piece of music. That's something more people should do. -Frans de Waard

– Vital Weekly (2011)