Two edited live recordings from Cave12 in Geneva and Standards, Milan in 2015, which give us the title of this grainy spackle (The Cave Of Standards). Jerome Noetinger and SEC_ (Mimmo Napolitano) both play Revox reel to reel tape recorders whose outputs are processed in various ways, using laptops, electroacoustic devices and feedback systems.

For the first 3 minutes or so we get abrupt sound swipes, bits of chopped up speech and periods of quiet low rumble. Then all hell breaks loose. Torn paper mixed with large bouncing balls and spinning falling saw-toothed tones. A dead stop reveals mousy whining soon engulfed by stop/start wind and low-end pummel. A breath. A creak that is feedback. Maelstroms of garble and squeal get cut off around the 17 minute mark.

Take a breath. The second piece begins in a stuttering rhythmic chatter, pausing occasionally for quiet insertions or unintelligible speech. After 2 minutes or so, a sense of foreboding enters with low end warble and creepy whispering. Slowed down crows? Trying to describe it is almost as much fun as listening to its mysterious and captivating forward motion. Even when things seem to settle into a pattern of sorts, new material is constantly being introduced in tiny blips. This is the aural equivalent of an abstract painting that you cannot look away from, but just get closer to, inspecting the detail.