"The composer Sabisha Friedberg writes acoustic or electronic pieces specifically for places of performance and recording, transmitting an awareness of the physical space where the music is happening, and a fascination with the low frequencies. “The Hant Variance” is the second release on Distributed Objects, the new publishing and recording imprint created at Brooklyn’s performance space Issue Project Room, where Ms. Friedberg was artist in residence in 2013.

It’s a four-movement piece she wrote and realized with Peter Edwards. Both musicians work with oscillators, analog synthesizers, field recordings and some kind of subwoofer setup that helps the sound shift directions. It’s a slow, quiet listen, with long crescendos and shifting ambient backdrops — sounds suggesting, say, a choppy wind as heard behind a thin wall, or a continuous cello note played in an airplane hangar."

"These are the first releases from Brooklyn's experimental performance centre Issue Project Room, which occupies an extraordinary vaulted theatre space on Boerum Place, originally built as HQ for the Elks Lodge fraternal order. The recordings are made by IPR artists in residence. [...]

Aural disorientation is the name of the game for South African artist Sabisha Friedberg, who is interested in a possible relationship between low end sound and apparitions. There's a link with the late Vic Tandy and his paranormal research in 1980s Coventry. Friedberg sets up flickering drones above unstable low frequencies - perhaps a spinning subwoofer is involved - and sits back to let the unpredictable in. It is certainly an eerie experience, and when distant bells or voices creep into audibility, you might prefer not to be home alone. More haunting than hauntological, Friedberg is patiently conducting an audio seance of subtle low end phantasmagoria."