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DAVID LEE MYERS

Sensus

RELEASE DATE: APRIL 4, 2025

In the summer of 2024, I came across several tracks that had been recorded twenty years earlier but never used. These sounds had been created by feeding a Lexicon LXP15 multieffects unit back into itself with a small specialized mixer. At the time, I appreciated the sounds but did not find them suitable for a project or release, and so set them aside and they were forgotten for decades. In the intervening years, new innovations in hardware and software audio processing have been allowing ever more opportunities to develop complex structures from simple sound sources. The original recordings were put through many alterations and layerings before becoming Sensus.

The title Sensus aims to indicate that this work intends to be experienced in a tactile way rather than a sonic expression open to aesthetic judgement as such. The physical vibrations of Sensus emanating from speakers in a room create a world all their own, not requiring labels like “ambient music” or “sound art.” It is what it is.

Sensus is David Lee Myers’ first solo album for LINE. His previous collaboration with Asmus Tietchens, 60:00 (LINE_017), was released on LINE in 2004.

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Catalog:
LINE_160
Format:
digital
Edition:
open edition
Release:
April 2025

David Lee Myers is a sound and visual artist working in New York City since 1977.

He has had nearly eighty albums released as solo and in collaboration under his own name and also as Arcane Device by Starkland, Important Records, Cronica, ReR, Line, Silent, Pogus, RRRecords, Staalplaat, and many other labels. Collaborations have been produced with Japan’s Merzbow, Toshimaru Nakamura, Thomas Dimuzio, and Dirk Serries aka VidnaObmana. Two Albums were created with legendary electronic pioneer Tod Dockstader, and five with Hamburg’s master sound manipulator Asmus Tietchens.

Myers performed his ‘Feedback Music’ live from 1988 through 2017 in the United States and Europe and he now concentrates on studio productions.

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REVIEWS OF
Sensus

  • David Lee Myers has always been a cartographer of unseen sonic landscapes, and with Sensus he invites us to feel his world as much as hear it. Unearthed from dusty hard drives and originally trapped in the selffeedback loops of a 2004 Lexicon LXP15 (think of it as the haunted toaster of ’90s multieffects), these sounds have spent twenty years waiting for their moment in the sun. Now, freshly reworked through modern hardware and software alchemy, they form a fourmovement suite that’s more tectonic shift than tidy composition.

    From the opening pulses of “Pulsus”, you’re bathed in subsonic waves that could power a small planet, the kind of lowfrequency energy you feel in your chest before your brain even notices. It’s tactile music: no polite background ambience here, but a vibrating cathedral of harmony and distortion. As “Tactus” unfurls, those initial pulses give way to intricate interplays of delaywrought patterns and ghostly overtones—imagine a labyrinth where every corridor hums with feedback, yet each turn reveals a fresh shimmer of resonance.

    The title piece, “Sensus”, is both the emotional and physical centerpiece: nearly twentytwo minutes of compelling stasis. It lurches and breathes in slowmotion crescendos, inviting you to lean in until every microripple in the sound field feels like a private revelation. Myers himself calls it an album you experience in a tactile way, and he’s not exaggerating – this is music you’ll feel in your bones long after it stops playing.

    By the time “Prospicere” arrives, its crystalline echoes and granular textures read like the aftermath of a sonic ritual, a moment of contemplative calm after the storm. It’s a fitting finale that reminds us these sounds weren’t born from pristine synth presets, but from the happy accidents of feedback loops left to their own devices.

    Myers has spent decades collaborating with noise titans (Merzbow), circuitbenders (Toshimaru Nakamura), and fellow feedback aficionados (Asmus Tietchens), yet here he stands alone, mining old recordings for futuristic gold. “Sensus” is less a dusty relic and more a testament to time’s power: some ideas need to ferment before they can sing. Put simply, if you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to touch sound, this is your invitation – just mind the bass.
    —chaindlk.com