Trovato – Queen City Sounds and Art

Trovato1_sm — Trovato, image courtesy the artist

The texture of Trovato’s new single “Crash” is metallic. It begins with string tones processed through reverse delay to suggest latency in the launch of what’s to come. Then, like robots building a new city from the ground up in the foothills of a vast mountain range, the song unfolds and develops with pounding bass, spring-like sounds, gently whorling guitar like fiber optic lines coiling out and put in place as the central nervous system of the nascent urban center. The cybernetic bird chirping is like the cadence to which the robots work away the day as if part of the design of the program of instant-city-assemblage in case someone were to come along and encounter the project and instead of necessarily thinking it a purely destructive and exploitative endeavor, more like an unusual, automated art project. It’s reminiscent of Ian McDonald’s 1988 novel Desolation Road about the terraforming of Mars and the cultures that develop out of it in that that novel doesn’t focus so much on the ooh wow technology aspect of the story so much as the impact of those events on a macro, historical scale without ignoring the micro and deeply personal. Listen to “Crash” on Soundcloud and follow Trovato at the links below.