Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is an album by electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 artist Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...

. This album is one of Venetian Snares' calmest, least aggressive-sounding efforts. It is not free of his characteristic abrasive elements, but it does subvert them to a degree unseen on his other releases.

Venetian Snares claims the album originally had a 12.6 surround sound

Surround sound

Surround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...

 mix:
This album sees Venetian Snares at the peak of his experimentation with time signatures beyond his naturally unorthodox meter of 7/4: "Vida" is in 5/4 time; "Huge Chrome Peach", "Ion Divvy", and "Bent Annick" are in 11/4 time; "Li₂CO₃" is in 13/4 time; "Destroy Glass Castles" is in 10/4 time; "Nineteen 1319" alternates, as its name suggests, between 19/4 and 13/4 time. "Chlorophyll" has a compound time signature which effectively amounts to 17/4. Several songs feature recognizable samples from a Speak & Spell

Speak & Spell (toy)

The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic handheld educational toys created by Texas Instruments that consist of a speech synthesizer, a keyboard, and a receptor slot to receive one of a collection of ROM game library modules...

 and Speak & Math

Speak & Math

The Speak & Math was a popular and revolutionary electronic toy created by Texas Instruments in 1980. Speak & Math was one of a three-part talking educational toy series that also included Speak & Spell and Speak & Read...

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Track listing

1. "Huge Chrome Peach" – 4:27
2. "Bonivital" – 3:49
3. "Cadmium Lung Jacket" – 3:56
4. "Vida" – 4:16
5. "Coke Ajax" – 5:14
6. "Li₂CO₃
   Lithium carbonate
   Lithium carbonate is a chemical compound of lithium, carbon, and oxygen with the formula Li2CO3. This colorless salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides and has received attention for its use in psychiatry. It is found in nature as the rare mineral zabuyelite.-Properties:Like almost...
   
   " – 4:02
7. "Ion Divvy" – 4:52
8. "Keek" – 4:12
9. "Nineteen 1319" – 4:07
10. "Destroy Glass Castles" – 7:02
11. "Chlorophyll" – 2:31
12. "Bent Annick" – 4:58
13. "Aaron" – 3:59
14. "Bezcitny" – 5:29

External links

• Official release page