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It's Monday morning, and I was up at 5:30 a.m. I woke thinking of "Gravity," a story I had started a couple of decades ago about a man who wakes up on his ceiling because gravity has reversed itself. It occurred to me that the idea is a metaphor for the pandemic; it's apocalypse. We all just float up out of the atmosphere until we're caught in orbit with all the other space junk.
A deep patch of misty fog hugs the tree line outside my window with a slow rain dribbling through the gutters. We left most of the lights off, and though we're playing CNN, we take breaks of silence for the commercials.
I am sitting in living room with UV GO light shining into my face, and I decided it was the right day for ambient, drone, experimental sounds curated by Warren Ellis and provided via Bandcamp and his newsletter ORBITAL OPERATIONS (subscribe here) or via his personal "channel," Warren Ellis LTD. There were some actual Spektrmodule podcatss made by him recently, which I included a few weeks ago on this blog.
I stopped work at about 16:00 Saturday, shut down the command center in the office, and then did not boot it again until just this morning, Monday, 7:34, where I have shifted after finishing the usual living room quiet time with my wife and the dogs in the semi-dark of the misty dawn.
As such, I did ZERO work Sunday and did not really spend any significant periods of time in the office. I did chores with Liesel, who also prepared a wonderful amount of food for the week including a delicious chili (with beer) and a rhubarb pie. Quarantine is good for pies! I continued to work on catching up on a stack of 25 or so Wonder Woman comics.
I need days of no work. I feel a bit recharged. I could have used two days off completely, so maybe that's a goal to achieve in the future. Given my work load, it's not something I can do often.
Reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells and various other things, including comic books, via traditional mode (eyes on paper).
Reading Mistborn vol. 1 by Brandon Sanderson as the audio book, and I have to reread the text with my eyes because the narrator is odd. Not bad, not exactly. The chap has a good, deep voice, but too little variance of tone and pitch, and so I keep losing what he's saying and have to review. Or I am just a fussbudget with anxiety right now and have trouble concentrating. Both I think.
Renewed my Locus subscription, so the new issue came with an interview with Tamysn Muir, whose book, Gideon the Ninth, I read earlier this year.
And now the music with no real commentary to speak of and only the occasional description from Bandcamp.
So much beauty in the quiet spaces.
Thank you, Warren Ellis. Our interests align nicely.
This first piece is the perfect thing for this morning. It's quiet and beautiful. I have played it three times now. If you only listen to one of these, make it this one.
The Blackening is a piece of music, mostly played as a duo by Alison Cotton and myself around the UK and Italy in 2014-2016. Overdubs were added by my friend and constant inspiration Lino Capra Vaccina in 2016.
This will be my last album for the foreseeable future. Thank You x
This will be my last album for the foreseeable future. Thank You x
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released June 21, 2019
Michael Tanner
Accordion, Strohviol, Bowed Zither, Harmonium
Alison Cotton
Viola
Lino Capra Vaccina
Vibraphone
Recorded at Green Witch, Lewes 2014
and Elfo Studio, Piacenza 2016
Thank you unreservedly to: Alison, Max, Annie and Lino and all the people who made us feel special in Italy.
Michael Tanner
Accordion, Strohviol, Bowed Zither, Harmonium
Alison Cotton
Viola
Lino Capra Vaccina
Vibraphone
Recorded at Green Witch, Lewes 2014
and Elfo Studio, Piacenza 2016
Thank you unreservedly to: Alison, Max, Annie and Lino and all the people who made us feel special in Italy.
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This piece may have been written for and during the pandemic as it was released April 24, 2020. It's quiet and beautiful but more haunting and atmospheric than "The Blackenng."TODAY IN THE PANDEMIC
COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
This is also a good data site:
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
987,916
Deaths:
55,425
Recovered:
118,781
This one's a repeat of one formerly shared, but I still have not bought it. Listen to "Nocturne."
Amongst Britain’s trees there are thought to be over 3,000 ancient oaks - those which date back 400 years or more - and of those trees more than 115 are 800 to 1,000 years old or more. They are part of a tree population that also includes ash trees that have lived for hundreds of years and a yew that is estimated to be between 2000-3000 years old or possibly many thousands of years older and that some consider to be the oldest living thing in Europe.
These are living organisms which could be seen to be undertaking a very stately, still form of time travel, to be watchers and observers over the passing of the years, centuries and even millennia.
Some of them have lived through invasions of their island home undertaken by wooden ships, sword and arrow, the final days and passing of the old ways and the times of magic and witchcraft, the coming of the industrial revolution and the dawning of the digital era.
Throughout it all they have stood by and watched the endeavours of humans and the encroaching of their lands as the tales passed through traditional folklore evolved into the sometimes dizzying swathes of today’s cultural landscape, with these “mighty oaks” and their companions now coming to be living amongst the invisible hubbub of modern day wirelessly transmitted... more
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released June 7, 2019
Artwork/packaging design and fabrication by AYITC Ocular Signals Department
Artifact #12a
Library Reference Nunbers: A017TWDL / A017TWN
Released by A Year In The Country
www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk
“A Year In The Country continue to release their sumptuous CDs… ‘A Thousand Autumns’ by Field Lines Cartographer celebrates an ancient oak, its cyclical shedding of thousands of leaves providing nutrients for next year’s leaves. The twinkling synth sounds like the falling leaves in the shafts of Autumnal sunlight… Sproatly Smith arrive with ‘Watching You’ another song from the point of view of these ancient trees, bird song, female voice, synth and acoustic guitar. Tracing the journey from acorn to mighty hollowed oak, a bucolic folk tune… Vic Mars is next with ‘The Test Of Time’ this song takes its inspiration from the great Eardisley oak tree, one of the oldest in Britain. A purely electronic piece of music which is both cathartic and gentle in nature, it’s stately and develops into a bucolic pastoral piece… This could be the label’s finest release yet.” Andrew Young, Terrascope
“The music portrays a gentle patience, from the field recordings sprinkled throughout the album to delicate chimes and folksong.” Richard Allen, A Closer Listen
“A Year in the Country’s latest uncanny release is The Watchers, a celebration of Britain’s trees that mixes electronica with eerie folk…” Jude Rogers, The Guardian
Artwork/packaging design and fabrication by AYITC Ocular Signals Department
Artifact #12a
Library Reference Nunbers: A017TWDL / A017TWN
Released by A Year In The Country
www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk
“A Year In The Country continue to release their sumptuous CDs… ‘A Thousand Autumns’ by Field Lines Cartographer celebrates an ancient oak, its cyclical shedding of thousands of leaves providing nutrients for next year’s leaves. The twinkling synth sounds like the falling leaves in the shafts of Autumnal sunlight… Sproatly Smith arrive with ‘Watching You’ another song from the point of view of these ancient trees, bird song, female voice, synth and acoustic guitar. Tracing the journey from acorn to mighty hollowed oak, a bucolic folk tune… Vic Mars is next with ‘The Test Of Time’ this song takes its inspiration from the great Eardisley oak tree, one of the oldest in Britain. A purely electronic piece of music which is both cathartic and gentle in nature, it’s stately and develops into a bucolic pastoral piece… This could be the label’s finest release yet.” Andrew Young, Terrascope
“The music portrays a gentle patience, from the field recordings sprinkled throughout the album to delicate chimes and folksong.” Richard Allen, A Closer Listen
“A Year in the Country’s latest uncanny release is The Watchers, a celebration of Britain’s trees that mixes electronica with eerie folk…” Jude Rogers, The Guardian
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Fully immersive electronic music by US composer Maggi Payne, inspired by the arctic winds. Maggi Payne's sound worlds invite the listeners to enter the sound and be carried with it, experiencing it from the inside out in intimate detail. The sounds are almost tactile and visible.
The music is based on location recordings, with each sound carefully selected for its potential—its slow unfolding revealing delicate intricacies—and its inherent spatialization architecting and sculpting the aural space where multiple perspectives and trajectories coexist. With good speakers, some space in your schedule, and a mind-body continuum willing to resonate with Payne’s electroacoustic journey, but then it will take you to places that other music can’t reach.
From the sounds of dry ice, space transmissions, BART trains, and poor plumbing she immerses the listener in a world strangely unfamiliar. Maggi Payne is a composer, video artist, recording engineer, photographer, and flutist and is Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music and a faculty member at Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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And in a thousand things were we at one in delight; for we had both of us that nature which doth love the blue of eternity which gathers beyond the wings of the sunset; and the invisible sound of the starlight falling upon the world; and the quiet of grey evenings when the Towers of Sleep are builded unto the mystery of the Dusk; and the solemn green of strange pastures in the moonlight; and the speech of the sycamore unto the beech; and the slow way of the sea when it doth mood; and the soft rustling of the night clouds. And likewise had we eyes to see the Dancer of the Sunset, casting her mighty robes so strange; and ears to know that there shakes a silent thunder over the Face of Dawn; and much else that we knew and saw and understood together in our utter joy.
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (1912)
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (1912)
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released March 29, 2020
Performed live on stillstream.com March 28, 2020
Recorded as After Knock.
Cover adapted from an image by Lachlan Donald:
flickr.com/photos/lox/
Performed live on stillstream.com March 28, 2020
Recorded as After Knock.
Cover adapted from an image by Lachlan Donald:
flickr.com/photos/lox/
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ALL OF THIS: https://kempernorton.bandcamp.com/This was the sister release to 'Discourses of the Withered'. Subtitled, outtakes and ephemera from 'Discourses...' in 13 parts. The digital is offered here indexed for track by track ease of consumption. The CD edition was intentionally issued as one long flowing track. The word outtake indicates, perhaps, that it is not of the quality of the final polished piece. That assumption could not be more inaccurate in this case. 'The Everything and the Nothing' is a stand-alone recording in its own brilliant right. The heavenly tape loops are there, mixed in with field recordings by Danielle from her time living in India.
The first CD edition was of 300 copies in 2008. There was a 2nd edition of 500 copies pressed in 2009.
INFX 036
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released July 22, 2008
All sounds by Will and Danielle.
Pipa/Lute by Rob Farley.
Field recordings and photography by Danielle.
All sounds by Will and Danielle.
Pipa/Lute by Rob Farley.
Field recordings and photography by Danielle.
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Brock Van Wey, aka bvdub, is undoubtedly among the greatest and most prolific artists in the world, whose music directly affects the heart, soul, and human mind. His soundscapes spread in the air as if they were delicate and slow movements of the northern lights, or the wind that blows on the flowers of the trees in spring. There is something divine in bvdub's music, and Glacial Movements is more than honored to welcome another great work for the world, Ten Times the World Lied, his fifth album on the Roman label, as he nears forty overall. Ten songs impossible to describe in words, but which will breach the heart of all those who lose themselves in this sonic wonder. Completely devoid of vocals for the first time ever, Brock spins but layers upon layers of divine clouds, gradually darkening, gradually closing in - expertly mastered by the artist himself, culminating in arguably the best album he has composed for Glacial Movements to date.
Alessandro Tedeschi – label founder of Glacial Movements
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released April 6, 2020
This album was recorded live in one take, over ten months, on the tenth of each month. Each in memory of a time the world lied.
All distortion intentional.
Written, produced and mastered
by bvdub / Brock Van Wey, 2018 to 2019.
Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt and bvdub
A Glacial Movements Records release, April 2020.
All rights reserverd.
glacialmovements.com
bvdub.org
This album was recorded live in one take, over ten months, on the tenth of each month. Each in memory of a time the world lied.
All distortion intentional.
Written, produced and mastered
by bvdub / Brock Van Wey, 2018 to 2019.
Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt and bvdub
A Glacial Movements Records release, April 2020.
All rights reserverd.
glacialmovements.com
bvdub.org
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Today’s Ambient: SLEEP CENTER
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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