OTOTOMY Hurls Free Associating Rhythmic Glitches, Digitally Mutated Vocals and Caustic Textures Together for the Psychedelic Noise Piece “Chairs”

The curiously titled “Chairs” by Finnish noise project OTOTOMY is a collision of power electronics, nightmarish vocal processing, jagged, lo-fi industrial beats and high-pitched distortion. Its disorienting roars have an odd organic logic like if you had to be a computer sorting through the recycling bin of an editing bay and attempt to make sense of the world by threading together the disconnected digital detritus of weeks of frantic work. In that roiling haze of sounds we hear fractured percussion and frayed waves of white noise constantly cresting like a video signal perpetually glitching out and repeating in a harrowing stutter before sputtering into nothingness. And that’s how the piece ends: abruptly and without any hint of a finished theme thus completing the proposed aesthetic above of the way we casually disregard of edits of our digital works splicing them off from more desirable content. With what we have left the mind imposes informal meaning and order and thus that is part of the appeal of the track as it invites interpretation with its furious soundscaping and relentless, rhythmic textures. Like if Butthole Surfers had emerged in the 2000s and didn’t bother with even the attempt at conventional song structure as a baseline before heading off into pure weirdo territory. Listen to “Chairs” on Spotify and follow OTOTOMY at the links below. The project’s new album FAILURE released March 16, 2024.