Crawlspace

Depending on how much you enjoy the computers in your life, Nathan Davis’s Crawlspace will either be one of the neatest things you’ve heard in a while or your worst nightmare turned into audio. You see (or rather hear), the composition is based entirely on sounds made inadvertently by the composer’s noisy laptop. An overarching, though extremely subtle, rhythmic sensibility allows Davis, a Brooklyn-based electronics-oriented composer and percussionist (not to be confused with either the Pittsburgh-based jazz multi-instrumentalist or the recently-deceased North Carolinian singer-songwriter) to make it all hold together somehow.

—FJO