Matthijs Kouw, Gagi Petrovic - Recalcitrance
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Recalcitrance

Label Moving Furniture Records ‎– MFR090
Format 2 x CD, Album, Limited Edition
Barcode 2090505076646
Country Netherlands
Released 16 Apr 2021
Genre Electronic
Style Drone, Experimental, Glitch
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After their track on the 'Moving Music' compilation, 'Recalcitrance' is the second collaboration and first full-length release by Matthijs Kouw & Gagi Petrovic. 'Recalcitrance' features 8 tracks that examine abstract topics that range from metaphysical speculation and psychological investigation to reflections on the process of creation itself.Taking the same source materials as their starting point, Matthijs Kouw and Gagi Petrovic created their own sound world, inviting the listener to trace the sources. The album comes in beautiful artwork by Zeno van den Broek and Rutger Zuydervelt and is mastered by Jos Smolders.

1-1 Matthijs Kouw Irradiance 15:55
1-2 Matthijs Kouw Remembrance 7:21
1-3 Matthijs Kouw Absorbance 9:18
2-1 Gagi Petrovic Vigilance 11:41
2-2 Gagi Petrovic Diligence 4:45
2-3 Gagi Petrovic Remnants 2:21
2-4 Gagi Petrovic Depressant 13:36
2-5 Gagi Petrovic Insignificant 3:13
Artwork – Zeno Van Den Broek
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By – Gagi Petrovic (Disc 2)
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By – Matthijs Kouw (Disc 1)
Layout – Rutger Zuydervelt
Mastered By – Jos Smolders
Limited edition of 200 copies.

Philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers has studied the operations of states and their mobilization of technical practices to serve a presupposed general interest, which involves the production of rules and norms. Such rules and norms are blind to forms of knowledge that are denigrated as ‘local’ and ‘traditional’, and feature the correlative elimination of what does not conform and cannot be standardized – in other words, what is recalcitrant to objective evaluation. Anything that resists subsumption to technical rationality is seen as a threat to public order (Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism, pp.73-4).

The eight tracks on ‘Recalcitrance’ examine abstract topics that range from metaphysical speculation and psychological investigation to reflections on the process of creation itself. Taking a shared set of source sounds as their starting point, Matthijs Kouw and Gagi Petrovic invite listeners to trace the common sources of their pieces and to become recalcitrant themselves by experiencing the compositions in ways that defy what Stengers describes as technical rationality. Recalcitrant subjects ask new questions, thereby allowing the currently dominant reductionist mindset obsessed with productivity to be unsettled by space for reflection and quiet contemplation.
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