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Objects In Mirror

by Ollie Cox

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Jenga 02:12
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Surfacing 05:31
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Pareidolia 05:41
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Memory Foam 04:58
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It would be so near 06:08
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Listening to Ollie Cox’s ‘Objects in Mirror’ is like peering through a waterfall as a study of movement. He watches how both playful, erratic drips and terrible, consistent force form a sense of flow. An album made primarily with objects passed through a tunnel of acoustic treatment, resampling and processing, Objects in Mirror asks what is the link between synthetic and natural, and how long the cycle is that connects and reconnects them.

Made and recorded in a Ballarat warehouse through the winter of 2021, Ollie Cox and producer Theo Carbo spent 10 days working with found objects to create a work that sits somewhere between ambient and noise. Their main pitch material was a bowed microwave plate or cast iron pulley wheel, and this coalesced with a gamut of found objects played percussively, including styrofoam, glass bottles, bubble wrap, a bin full of broken glass, bucket of nails, metal, string; all to ask poetic inquiries of construction, euphoric purpose and inevitable decay.

‘Objects in Mirror’ is as formless as water held by a vessel of the same substance. It makes for a listening experience that trickles and gushes through the gaps between moments and materials. ‘Objects in Mirror’ invites you to question how we expand and contract within the tumult of the day-to-day, while it reaches for a kind of zoomed out, egoless truth. Ollie’s world is one where everything belongs, where everything knows its place through, and perhaps in support of the chaos. It is where the surreal and industrial nestles against the cheek of the organic. It is knowing how many water droplets amount to a lake; knowing where to comfort and where to upset. It is art that urges you to adopt a loose grip of things so that the world can slip in and out of your grasp as it needs to.

Ollie has an ability to make chaos palatable, desirable, even. To listen to this music is to irrevocably trust wherever his frantic, intentional and surprising movements take you. Throughout the EP we are met with a cross-section of reality that refuses to be defined beyond the fact that we are at all times challenged by absurdity, just as we can always be comforted by it.

The EP opens with ‘Jenga', an urgent summer rainstorm sizzling with the static of a circuit breaker. It moves into ‘Surfacing’, a soundtrack perhaps to the instinctual human journey to running water, intensity growing steadily with each footstep as the gush grows louder in the ear. ‘Pareidolia’ evokes organic matter; sun-dried bracken at the edge of a lagoon, whereas ‘Memory Foam’ is a metallic whisper into the great echoed expanse. Clarity comes with the EP closer, ‘It would be so near’, where Ollie is crystalline at last in meditation on the edges of the cycle.

In constructing a world characterised by a reverence for the experimental, Ollie Cox is an artist who needs not ask how to be, but who possesses an innate artistic truth; stepping out of the way of himself to instead herald the practice of continually peering deeper into what it is to be an observer and a participator; a player and a listener; to live and to die.

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released March 1, 2023

Performed by Ollie Cox
Composed by Ollie Cox
Produced by Theo Carbo and Robert P. Downie
Engineered by Theo Carbo
Mixed by Robert P. Downie
Mastered by Becki Whitton
Album art by Leia Jospé
CD design by Hamish Mitchell
Liner Notes by Hannah McKittrick

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Ollie Cox Melbourne, Australia

Ollie Cox is a Melbourne-based composer, drummer and improvisor, who works in the liminal spaces between constructs of sound and music. Drawing in equal measure from his jazz-centric background and love of experimentalism, Cox seeks to craft emotive compositions that flicker between spans of contemplative ambience to frenetic sonic chaos. ... more

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