“Fork” (Chris Ianuzzi song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

ChrisIanuzzi_Fork1_sm — Chris Ianuzzi, photo courtesy the artist

Electronic composer Chris Ianuzzi recently released an EP, Olga in a Black Hole on March 6, 2020 with an album Planeteria forthcoming in 2020. The single “Fork” from the EP reminds one in a way of V’Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Where in the film Voyager 6 gets lost in a black hole and comes back a sentient being upgraded by an advanced alien race, Olga has returned from her trip into the black hole with the ability to draw on a an unusual palette of sounds with which to communicate. The hard and constantly evolving rhythms bleep and bloop like some kind of 8-bit dance music that might have been made by Autechre at some point in its career. But that angular, android dance pop gives way to an echoing, ambient abstraction that fades out at the end. Like maybe we’re to understand Olga’s journey through the black hole as an intense, transformative experience that altars form, function and existential orientation leaving her on the other side in a state of tranquility and grace. Maybe a journey through a black hole as a worm hole isn’t just one simply of going from point A to point B but one more like entering Siege Perilous wherein you will emerge changed in ways impossible to know or predict completely without having experienced it for yourself. Perhaps Planeteria offers an experience on the other side of that black hole processing. Listen to “Fork” on Spotify and connect with Chris Ianuzzi at the links below.