{"id":204,"date":"2005-01-11T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:51:52","slug":"204-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/204-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Genitor Lvminis &#8211; &#8220;Virg\u00e6&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"temp-gridblock-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tmpl-text-2 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1 col-sm-2 col-xs-6 col-lg-3\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bg-img wp-image-205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0_300_166_116.78588235294_genitor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"243\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-lg-9\">\n<h4 class=\"color1-color\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; border-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #cf2e2e;\">Genitor Lvminis<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Category<\/span>: Ambient<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Album<\/span>: <em>Virg\u00e6<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I think I\u2019m suffering from clinical depression. I\u2019m trapped in a dreary world that seems to be twitchy yet stagnant, nothing moving, life slowing down to a gray, soulless grind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No, I\u2019m just listening to Genitor Lvminis, whose 20 minute <em>Virg\u00e6<\/em>&nbsp;3\u201d minidisk EP offers a dark wave of orchestral string patches, twinkling string-picking, bassy cello bursts and dark cinematic thumps. It\u2019s a hypothetical soundtrack to the world\u2019s dreariest, most depressing black &amp; white student art film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is a well-mixed, beautiful-sounding piece of work. I will not discredit it on that account, but the most repetitive nature of the 13 minute \u201cVirg\u00e6 (Part I)\u201d is a bit numbing. The same orchestral cinematic strains continue to repeat themselves without variety for 11 minutes of the whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cVirg\u00e6 (Part II)\u201d offers even less hope and more minimalism in the form of a most repetitious looping of drags across a cello with an array of slight background noises and string tweaks providing small amounts of movement throughout the whole of the seven and a half minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Given the proper tools, motivation, and outlet, Magnus Engwall, the man behind Genitor Lvminis, could surely find a great home in the field of cinematic composition, even if those movies would have to be decidedly dark and hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>from ReGen Magazine (~1\/2005)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genitor Lvminis Category: Ambient Album: Virg\u00e6 I think I\u2019m suffering from clinical depression. I\u2019m trapped in a dreary world that seems to be twitchy yet stagnant, nothing moving, life slowing down to a gray, soulless grind. No, I\u2019m just listening to Genitor Lvminis, whose 20 minute Virg\u00e6&nbsp;3\u201d minidisk EP offers a dark wave of orchestral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-regen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}