BT - This Binary Universe

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Released 4^th December 2006

BT (aka Brian Transeau) returns with his new album, "This Binary Universe" this December. Complete with a DVD of accompanying short-films and animations, the seven track soundscape is released through DTS Entertainment.

"All That Makes Us Human Continues" opens the album with melodic synths and guitar twangs flecked across an echoing space-age backdrop. "Dynamic Symmetry" builds around staccatoed bleeps and sleepy clicks before morphing into sun-drenched jazz. "1.618" is an epic, cricket-like synths power the track along, looping around warped bass and shimmering bells. "The Anhtkythera Mechanism" is played out through a tense score of grating electronica, prowling strings and victorious trumpets.

"To marry melody, harmony and memorable songwriting with the most bleeding-edge technology possible is my passion," says BT. "These are the things that excite me."

"This Binary Universe" aims to reach beyond the standard model of artists’ collaborations. It wants to build a creative bridge across the void that separates sight and sound in computer-generated artistic expression.

Alongside each of the compositions crafted by BT is a distinguished collection of the finest computer artists and animators in the world today, including Mondi, Dose Productions and Scott Pagano, with BT himself taking hold of the director’s reigns along the way.

Following on from epic master-pieces such as "IMA" and "ESCM", BT delivered the diverse "Movement In Still Life" in 2000 before coming back with his last album, "Emotional Technology" in 2003 and scoring his biggest single to date, "Somnambulist". He has provided scores for blockbuster movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "Monster" and collaborated with everybody from N*Sync and Britney Spears through to Madonna, Sting and Peter Gabriel.

This collaboration of composer and animators is more than a mere bonus that comes with the tracks, it is a genuine unification of music and visuals; a stand-alone artwork pushing the limits of available technology in sound engineering and computer-generated art.

"This Binary Universe" is released through DTS Entertainment on 4th December.