Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon – Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion – LP

Snow Dog Records

“Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion” is the debut collaborative LP by Rupert Clervaux and Beatrice Dillon, a minimal but diverse record taking in influences from techno, experimental music, ethnographic music, improvisation, electronic music, and field recordings. This collection of short, intuitive rhythm pieces was made sporadically over a period of ten months in 2013.

A shared love of repetitive music is immediately apparent, from the transcontinental axis of electronic music that connects London, Berlin, and Detroit, stretching back to the experimental and minimalist composers of the ’60s; Xenakis’s Psappha, Reich’s Four Organs, and Pierre Schaeffer’s Etude Aux Objets all crop up in the preambles and debriefs that bookended recording sessions.