There are several dozen tracks thus far in the “sound diary” credited on SoundCloud to Corruption, who gives as a residence Funabashi, Japan. Many are noisy escapades, tagged simply as “sound diary,” while the one dated “2013.11.19” and given the subtitle “like a moth to a candle” bears a second tag: Nanoloop. That’s the name of a popular piece of electronic music software that originated on the Nintendo Gameboy and has been since ported to [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/app/nanoloop/id322700286?mt=8) and [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nanoloop). What was, back in 1998, an esoteric dream of handheld music-making has become pop culture, an everyday activity. In Corruption’s hands, Nanoloop makes sequences of shiny chiming jangles that ebb and flow like a low-resolution tide. There’s a glitchy quality to it at times, lending the work a welcome complexity, a dark undercurrent to its slow pace. Corruption does not identify which edition of Nanoloop is employed.
Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/corrption](https://soundcloud.com/corrption/corruption-diary-2013-11-19). More on Nanoloop at [nanoloop.com](http://www.nanoloop.com/about.html). The above screenshots are from the Android version.