david kristian

david kristian - room tone CD
Alien8 Recordings

This is room tone for a David Lynch dreamscape. Subtle rhythms and sequenced segments crop up periodically to ensure a fluid pace to the disc, but they never overpower; they merely attempt to distract you from the pulsing oscillations below them. Kristian seems to have all the right tools at his disposal, including a technical prowess with which he wields a definite cinematic flair for drama, for power and for sound aesthetics. Room Tone is a stupendous example of prime sound design. - Vils M DiSanto (Incursion)

"Since the release of Cricklewood a few years back, he has been considered the new prince of avant-garde electronics. Room Tone takes beyond anything Kristian recorded before, not in terms of technology or avant-gardism, but in terms of aesthetical achivement, of beauty."
- Francois Couture

"Powerfully subtle, sufficiently scary and very cinematic."
- Ilana Kronick (Hour)

"On this dark, ambient opus, Kristian keeps his destinations cleverly obscured as he weaves his dense soundscapes."
- Johnson Cummins (Mirror)

"The Density and quiet intensity of Kristian's deceptively simple drones put him head and shoulders above the rest of an incredibly crowded field."
- Alan Cummings (The Wire)

"And art Room Tone is. It's the invisible installation I always expected he'd construct. Brian Eno tried something similar on The Shutov Assembly, but Eno's pieces were mere accompaniments to Shutov's canvasses. The tracks on Room Tone, however, exist as free-standing distillations of emptiness and the space between things.
- Paul Cooper (Pitchfork Media)

Excerpt taken from an Interesting article on film and music from Grooves Radio: 

Q: If you were scoring a film, what artist or artists would you be interested in working with?

Andrew Duke: David Kristian from Montreal has starting doing soundtrack and sound design work and his "Room Tone" album on Alien showcases some of this work. I would definitely put him at the top of my list.

Q: If these electronic musicians are given the opportunity to score films, whom would you most like to see to do this?

Andrew Duke: Artists like David Kristian have shown that electronic musicians are very adept at working in the film soundtrack world and I think that directors should be going to more artists like this instead of the usual names.

Andrew Duke: Is staff writer for XLR8R Magazine who also runs Cognition Audioworks, he is considered by many to be among the leading experts on electronic music.