Review: Hecq – Mare Nostrum
–Written by Evan Witten
On Mare Nostrum, film composer and general tuneweaver Ben Lukas Boysen (the sole mind behind Hecq) takes you to Barcelona, Spain to discover the haunting beauty of the world’s 9th largest super computer. Using field recordings of the glass-ensconced monolith – which finds its home inside an old chapel – Hecq creates a four track, 60 minute masterpiece. The glitch work of his past is only amplified by Mare Nostrum’s own organic blips and whirs. His use of space in the sound design makes this a wonderful work of art, as man and machine come together.
It’s pretty sweet.
Buy Mare Nostrum here. You canconnect with Boysen on Facebook.