The Slow Motion Ecstasy of Sound - Welcome to the World of the Tara Experiment
Analogue synthesizers, tape loops, Vox organ, tremolo fuzz guitars, Rhythm Ace clicks and blips, reverb, echo, old vinyl and found sounds. These are some of the ingredients that go into the making of the sonic landscapes created by the Tara Experiment. A blend of Musique Concrete, drone and ambient atmospheres fed through a tape echo that has it’s controls set for the heart of the sun.
Based in Hobs Lane Station, the Tara Experiment mine otherworldly soundscapes in the comfort of their ever growing electronic studio affectionately known as Electronic Music Studio 425. Inside, no sound is sacred. Analogue synths are blended with bells and treated guitar. Old vinyl is meshed with found sounds and organ drones. A tape loop of something as commonly simple as a submarine sonar ping can be the basis of a new track that will be labored over for days by these sonic boffins until every detail is complete and the track comes alive as a warm living breathing, although sometimes dark entity.
The live performance by the Tara Experiment is something altogether different. You will never see the same show twice. Don’t ask for the hits to be played, there’s no time. These guys pull a tone out of the air, then stretch it and contort it until it loops around your ears and threatens to steal your soul. Long ambient drones and tones punctuated by space and white noise envelope your senses. Synth bleeps gurgle into the dark reaches of the ether while a well-worn tape loop reminds you of another time and place.
Reared on the music of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, old horror and sci-fi soundtracks, The Velvet Underground, LaMonte Young, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, John Cage and Cluster the Tara Experiment blend old with new in a future retro cocktail spliff of sound. So skin up and drift away.
“The group is called the Tara Experiment. Basically our trip is to remain quasi anonymous, make Avant Garde Electronic & Musique Concrete recordings and live quietly beneath the blue suburban skies."
"Electronic Music Studio 425 in Hobs Lane Station is equipped with tape recording machines and other electronic equipment for generating and manipulating sound. The composition and realization of this music and sound is done by a small number of specialized staff."
