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For fans of ELpH (/Coil), Mica Vainio, Pan Sonic, Ryoji Ikeda, alva noto, Fennesz. Ivan Pavlov aka CoH characterizes his latest solo work, Radiant Faults, as "the recording of a dialogue," rather than a set of compositions.Crafted using a rare new synthesizer, the Silhouette Eins, Pavlov's firstencounter with the instrument across a long, late night session resultedin a continuous set of textures, patterns, and subliminal melodies. Atsome point during the process, he realized he was not alone: "It was as ifsomething was speaking to me through the gear - the feeling was veryintense. No matter how determined and specific I attempted to be, theresults were something else. They felt like 'responses.' This instantlyreminded me of ELpH."ELpH is the name coined by Coil for a "celestial entity" that emanatesfrom electronic equipment at mysterious moments, altering the creativeprocess in unforeseen ways. They devised the term during studiosessions back in 1994, during which sustained software accidentsultimately seemed possessed of supernatural intelligence, spawning itsown mythos. As a longtime member of Coil's inner circle, Pavlov issteeped in ELpH's ideology and influence - and highly qualified to identifyan encounter of his own. Radiant Faults offers a compelling addition tothe ELpH canon, at the threshold of music and manifestation, embracingthe "divine quality of error."The Silhouette Eins is a unique instrument combining the 1920's conceptof an "optical soundtrack" with a hardware synth interface to Pure Data: avisual programming language for producing interactive music, using realtimevideo signal in its synthesis of sound. Pavlov's attemptedmanipulations were answered by indecipherable transmissions fromsome distant, unknowable place. Stark waveforms drone and bendagainst skeletal metronomes; murmured pulses flicker down emptycorridors; high fluorescent tones gleam and glitch in zero gravity - themood throughout is one of generative whispers, hidden sentie...