Sculpture (musician, Dan Hayhurst and animator, Reuben Sutherland) generate an unstable agglomerate of post-techno dancefloor mutations, pop, comic strips, cybernetic electronics, mechanical and digital animation, tape loops and computer sequences, heart and head, past and future.
Sculpture have released two zoetrope picture discs on Dekorder, Rotary Signal Emitter (2010) and Toad Blinker (2011). Their third LP, Slime Code (2012/13), originally released on ultra-limited edition cassette by patten’s Kaleidoscope label in 2012, was reissued by Digitalis Recordings in January 2013.
Dan Hayhurst plays digital media devices, reel to reel tape recorder, sampler, effectron, and walkman.
Reuben Sutherland plays video zoetrope turntable, ‘DJing’ with psychophonotropic picture discs which animate when filmed, beaming looping fragments of surreal, luridly coloured imagery into eyeballs and brains at 25 frames per second - Victorian mechanical imaging technology combined with digital video.
Press:
It’d be a mistake to conclude from the vintage of their gear that Sculpture are pursuing a retro analogue agenda. Their purpose is to explore perceptual thresholds…Sculpture hover at these sensory junctures, invoking the cortical feedback mechanisms of the brain - The Wire
Sun Ra meets Ekoplekz in a conical flask of liquid mescaline, all spun thru a centrifuge at Daphne Oram’s home lab… The intangible magic of their sound lies in the way their grooves dissolve and reassemble at will, performing almost impossible segues between seemingly insoluble sounds and rhythms made to immerse and stimulate your pineal gland to joyfully lysergic effect - Boomkat
As with Nurse With Wound at their best, there is a manic energy and deranged sense of joy in these recordings (and indeed animations)…as if a hyperactive toddler had snatched the avant-garde and ran away with it, laughing uncontrollably. As a result, what could have been a dry and merely ‘interesting’ project turns out to be a hugely entertaining joyride - Freq
