SKIN

Emptyset follow their acclaimed album Borders?(Jan 2017, Thrill 429) with a brand new 12EP?featuring four new tracks that showcase the duo's?first work using entirely acoustic production?methods?Skin was mastered and cut to vinyl by Rashad?Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin and is?pressed on virgin vinyl with free download card?Emptyset have performed throughout Europe in?2017 and will tour the US this Fall in support of?Skin?Empytset have performed at many high profile?festivals including Berlin Atonal, Unsound,?MUTEK, CTM, Sonic Acts, Berghain, Luminato,?Adelaide, and Bozar.?Borders was praised by Pitchfork, Resident?Advisor, The Wire, Uncut, FACT Magazine, The?Quietus, Exclaim, and AllMusic?Emptyset's James Ginzburg contributed a remix?to SUMAC's Before You I Appear EP (Thrill 434)?under his Bleed Turquoise moniker?Borders track Ascent was recently remixed?by Turkish artist Cevdet Erek. Erek represented?Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale and recently?contributed a remix to SAICOBAB's SAB SE?PURANI BAB (led by YoshimiO of OOIOO and?Boredoms)??Emptyset stand at the vanguard of electronic music. With each?release, they stretch boundaries and explore new methods of?creating sounds with scientific precision. On their new EP Skin,?Emptyset (the duo of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas) bring?together techniques they developed through their 2017 LP?Borders, exploring structural aspects of ritual music and nonWestern?composition and combine them with recent performance?work examining microtonal vocalization and acoustic qualities of?materials. This is the first time Emptyset has presented a body of?work using entirely acoustic production methods.?The compositions of Skin are all focused around structure, texture,?and rhythm captured through recordings of a custom string?instrument, drums, and physical granular materials modulated in?real-time, alongside tonal vocal elements. Through the continued?exploration of utilizing organic sources, Emptyset deploys minute?timbral shifts, and cyclic structures to monolithic effect.