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Absolute Silence pushes the idea of a “game album” forward
The concept of a “game album” is hardly new but Davide A. Fiandra’s effort has a more specific goal: to capture good “record flow.” Titled Absolute Silence, Fiandre’s game album is a series of lo-fi and abstract experiences. Many of them do have a musical component but it’s supposed to be the mechanics rather than any audio that creates the flow. With that being the case, the album could be said to be a dreamy, contemplative series of stops and starts—sometimes exhausting, other times frenetic with energy before tapering off. The album begins with “PLAYING PEGGLE AT 3 A.M,” which…