Much of the work on the Test Tones EP is improvised in a stream of consciousness going with the sonic flow, trusting that sonic river-run, capturing the shine of the bright and the new quickly. The app is currently in redevelopment and will relaunch later this year. The project began in 2017 with the release of an iPhone artwork app of the same name intended as an aesthetic alternative to social media scrolling, by deploying the app the user could swipe between various patterns while listening to a specially created soundtrack. Jack says that his “ambient, new age and experimental electronic music with hypnotic visuals to create an experience akin to deep meditation or psychedelic awakenings.” Tomorrow he’s to unveil his Test Tones on us, which collates together seven works of experimental computer ambience, cusping womb music, drone, retro-Moog exploration, even New Age primitivism of the sort compiled by Soul Jazz Records on its recent compilation, Space, Energy and Light: Experimental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88. We should be grateful, tbh it’s a good place. Jack’s been behind the faders and involved in the final realisation of work by the meditative guitarist Godtet, the leftfield hiphop of Stones Throw artist Jonti, the dark breaks textures of Kcin, and many others in his position as senior engineer at 301 hell, he’s even had compositions feature in performance pieces at Sydney Opera House.īut it’s time we heard from the man himself, moving from the final sonic execution of the work of others to draw us inside his vision of sound. That looks like it really could be about to change lovers of the blissful, the generative, the retrotronic, if you would be so kind as to come inside? JACK PREST, the Australian soundscaper, is perhaps best known for his work on the other side of the plexiglass as an engineer and producer at Sydney’s Studios 301, nine decades of recording absolutely according it legendary status.