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The latest issue of The WIRE magazine features an article on Ben Frost andBY THE THROAT. Here is an excerpt:

“When I was making it, it was borderline ritualistic, a sacrificial process, purposefully laying these perfect, harmonious combinations of notes and textures at the mercy of this unspeakable horrible aural violence via these large blasts of subsonic attack.”... As Joe Muggs observed in his review ofBy The Throat (Soundcheck, The Wire 309), Frost’s music is saturated with a sense of the cinematic. Most Hollywood scores now are depressingly conservative, but Frost’s work could be a template for a 21st century movie music. “The overtly didactic gestures that plague modern film music are totally not something I am interested in,” he says, “but the blurring of that once definitive line between sound design and score – particularly in some of these big action films recently – nauseating content aside, is, I think, really fucking exciting. If my work is cinematic, it is really only in the sense that making it, for me, is very much a visual exercise where every element of this record has a singular and inherent animated visual shape, colour and texture, and that I am trying to make this music a world in and of itself.”

Also, The WIRE’s website has an exclusive video interview with Ben where he talks about BY THE THROAT. Watch it here.

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