“Nova” sounds like you’re getting to be in deep space surrounded by luminous energies streaming through utter darkness. Nebno’s vocals are ghostly yet stream with a clarity that fades from a central point of resonance. The track is a part of an improvised set of processed vocals that echo lightly into reverb and layered with other streams of voice that flicker in a hard digital angle like something going through a tremolo effect set to one extreme end. But in doing so it’s like being able to hear digital packets transmitted through a quantum communication device through interstellar space. The touch of synth drone distorting into nothingness at the end is not unlike a nova flaring out into the void of cosmic time. Perhaps as an exercise in developing her future aesthetics Nebno has in this track imagined what it might be like to experience the dramatic events of just a few years compressed at the end of the life of a star into four minutes, fifty-six seconds, and give voice to the glorious beauty of that time while expressing the melancholia of bearing witness to the death of a star. Listen to “Nova” on Soundcloud and follow the Swiss artist Nebno at the links provided.
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