On Pattern Recognition, Memory Wire focus on their minimal keyboard head-to-heads, a feature of their live sets. Elsewhere on the album electronic ambiences flow around them.

Pattern Recognition features live recordings taken from various new music events 2010.

Memory Wire grew out of live performances at the Quadelectronic improvised electronic music events. They realised they shared similar aesthetics, fondness for minimal and atmospheric ambient music. Having done so much live improvised music, they wished to play music together in the more controlled environment of the studio.

Chris Conway has the ability to make evocative atmospheric music with whatever instrument he picks up as he demonstrates here including theremin, piano, guitar and flutes, not forgetting his washes of treated vocals which help to create a rich deep layered sound. He has worked with a strangely diverse set of musicians including Talvin Singh, Peter Tork (Monkees), Derek Bailey, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Gavin Bryars, and Dr L Subramanium.

Jim Tetlow is an intuitive sculptor in sound. Using sounds from found sources and reworking them to play in his setup of live electronics. He has recorded many albums with electronic ensemble Endgame, Extremities, with Julian Broadhurst, Aurelie, Harper Bourne, Focal Gaol and more, releasing 18 albums and over 70 with Endgame.

Robert Rich, Terry Riley, Barbara Buchholz, Arve Hendriksen, Eduard Artemiev

Recorded digitally live in Leicester, UK at
1, 7 - CPulse2, Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre,
2, 3, 4, 5 – Quadelectronic 27, 28, 18, 29, Quad Studios
6 - An Occasional Occasion, Fabrika Tha Arts Organisation

Charm almost was going to be on the Ascend album.

The album title comes from a book by William Gibson