Portuguese-based electronic producer Superalma Project teams up with the Spanish audio/visual artist Sofía Bertomeu on the new micro EP “Universal Observer Device” out now as a FREE download from the Italian netlabel Brainstormlab. Comprised of two tracks and clocking in at a six-minute run-time, the collaboration involved each musician trading sonic material to be used in their respective arrangements.
The result is a head-spinning collage of styles that provocatively pairs Superalma Project’s hyperactive beat-driven approach with Bertomeu’s drifting sound “scapes.” Describing “Universal Observer Device,” Brainstormlab has this to say:
“As spring blooms and half the planet is in lockdown, what better time to release this work of cross-pollination. Sofia Bertomeu returns in collaboration with Superalma Project for a split EP, with each using sounds of the other. Despite the apparent difference in style, Bertomeu with her ambient narratives of human interaction – or in this case, memories of them – and Superalma’s channel zapping between sci-fi beats and power chord arpeggios, there is more common ground than first meets the ear. Bridging the physical distance between the two, the common theme of interraction, not only between humans but between humans and technology, all under the watchful eye of the Universal Observer Device…“
