"Wire Hums" Featured in Bandcamp Daily
“On his new album, sound artist David Bird draws inspiration from a time when, as a teenager, he accidentally broke a cello during practice. As such, Wire Hums is the sound of 14 cellos breaking—and dissolving, exploding, transforming and miraculously reassembling—as he pushes and processes a synthesized version of the instrument through algorithmic bottlenecks. The results can be playfully percussive, like “Quilted” and “Cellular Noise”; there’s also the silvery drones of “Half Tone” and “Autophasia”; and “Cyberlathe,” which arrives in swarms of Penderecki-ian hiss. Everything is in a constant state of change, a sensation best captured in “Superposition,” which shifts from perhaps the album’s tenderest moment to its most ominous. It’s a line that Bird walks masterfully throughout all of Wire Hums.”