Conna Haraway

(This article’s English version was produced with AI-assisted translation)

Little more than a faded memory remains of the reductionism that shaped electronic music between the 2000s and the 2010s. Conna Haraway is proof of this: computers cost less and less in relation to their power, plugins keep multiplying, and maximalism has perhaps become the new interface. "Spatial Fix", the second release by the Glasgow producer and co-founder of INDEX: Records, is a clear example of this. The work comes out on Theory Therapy, already known for releases by Usof and Conclave Reflections.
His debut "Lusidiq" was an ectoplasmic artifact halfway between ambient dub and icy IDM; here Haraway embraces a meticulous approach, an almost algorithmic transparency, far from the DIY logic of other shamans of the electronic new wave. Still ambient dub, but on different coordinates from the muddy drift of Uon or the ashen dreaminess of Pontiac Streator.

Glitch music becomes the lucid report of a system crash, the bugs of one’s own personal software rewritten inside a digital landscape. The approach is as material as it is abstract, with downtempo rhythms inherited from illbient and instrumental hip-hop, set into a dizzying sonic flow, at times shoegaze-like, with naturalistic incursions, the flow of a stream, the quantized chirping of synthetic birds, opposed to almost UK bass-like blows. The sound density is sometimes labyrinthine, but in just four tracks the album slowly makes its way through, inviting repeated listening sessions, like source code to be reread each time with different eyes.

05/06/2025