Jlin - Carbon 7

Rather than a musician, Jerrilyn Patton is a sound architect. The way she constructs her tracks is more a installation rather than a narrative, she takes pieces of everything to erect a piece that mutates, evolves and reacts. But they are also works that demand interaction from the listener, one can't remain passive with the sounds of Jlin, you are confronted to act or to omit, it's music that bends norms of music, and aims to take us out of confort zones.

Carbon 7 is a clear reference to the industrial ambients that she creates, the cold percussions, the metallic electronics, it all set us in a fabric. But Patton defies our expectations by introducing undulating vibrations and feral noises, there's life inside of this apparently cold world, and it's life that could be dangerous, abrasive, even sensual. Her collaboration with Indian dancer Avril Stormy Unger has left a clear influence in her sound, she can create a jungle in fight with the cold machines, making this very much a tense track that confronts nature vs science.

This inventive thinking is reinvigorating for electronic (dance?) music, it offers new visions of what can be achieved if we see music from a different perspective, if we break its linearity and we start seeing it in four dimensions, because Patton thinks forward, but at the same times go to the simplest reasoning of "everything that produces sound could be an instrument", creating a map that has depth and that mutates through time, but above all, it's uncomfortable and disorienting, and its artistic in a way that even making the effort from our to change the song is part of the performative experience that Jlin proposes.