SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS

For those who missed it or those of you who didn't but want to hear it again, here is the set I played at S.U.N. Festival this year in the Chillout Cathedral. 

It was a good day

Cosmic Downbeat Live @ S.U.N. Festival 2013

2023 was a special year for me as Mental Traveler. Even though the project has been running for a little longer, this is the year, when the first MT's full length album with fourteen compositions have seen the daylight thru DeeperSoundscapes imprint. Apart from Mental Traveler's ambient set on Ambient Stage (which will be also uploaded later), I had a great pleasure to perform for you officialy first Mental Traveler LIve Act this summer at Uroczysko Festival (IMHO currently the best Polish festival representing the broadly understood psychedelic culture 🕉 ).
Peformance happened right after legendary Lauge & Baba Gnohm at Chill Stage (in Polish called Czajnik, eng. Teapot) placed in amazingly magical spot, sourranded by the forest with fantastic installations, lights and unique atmosphere 🍃🌀🌲 
Thanks to all who came and took this sound trip in picturesque forest of Uroczysko, you’ve created really wonderful energy and atmosphere around the stage, what happened there was amazing, just thinking about those moments I still have goosebumps ✨ Thank you for magic time together and hats off to the Uroczysko Festival team for making it happen 🙏

Full Tracklist:
Mental Traveler's Undisclosed Remix of "Every Single Second" by Digicult [Unreleased]
Mental Traveler - ID [TBA]
Mental Traveler - Mystifying Phenomenon (Album Mix) [DeeperSoundscapes]
Mental Traveler - Katharsis (Reimaginated Live Mix) [DeeperSoundscapes]
Mental Traveler - Late Night's Nomad (Album Mix) [DeeperSoundscapes]
Mental Traveler - Stepping Out (Album Mix) [DeeperSoundscapes] 
Mental Traveler (aka CJ Art) Remix of "Moonlight Run" by Zero Cult [Cosmicleaf Records]

PS. 📸 on Uroczysko Festival by Breslicht

You can support the album by buying it on:

Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/scattered-in-between/4020303
Juno Download: https://www.junodownload.com/products/cj-art-mental-traveler-scattered-in-between/5974771-02/
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/scattered-in-between/1670620700
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Scattered-Between-Mental-Traveler-Art/dp/B0BV72GPBZ

More info:
Mental Traveler Beatport profile: https://www.beatport.com/artist/mental-traveler/679853
Uroczysko Festival: www.facebook.com/uroczyskofestival
CJ Art (aka Mental Traveler) www.facebook.com/cjartmusic | www.instagram.com/cjartt | https://soundcloud.com/cjart 
Deepersense Music (DeeperSoundscapes parent label) www.facebook.com/deepersensemusic | www.instagram.com/deepersensemusic |
https://soundcloud.com/deepersensemusic 
Deepersense team: www.facebook.com/deepersensepl

CJ Art pres. Mental Traveler LIVE @ Uroczysko Festival 2023 (Chill Stage) [13-08-2023]

Descroix - The Gardens - Boom Festival 2023

My morning performance at the Ambient Stage of the Uroczysko Festival 2024, that I have the pleasure of being a part of, was a truly magical experience, one that I’m excited to share with you all. Those moments were filled with serenity and connection. Ambient music, with its calming and healing effects, is something very close to my heart. I invite you to join me in a shared meditation, where we can all immerse ourselves in this peaceful and restorative journey.

Here is the list of tracks I used in this set:

Innesti – We Float Here
Rhucle – Ku Ku
Christopher Hanlon – Shelter
Tides – Vessel
Martin Nonstatic - Beyond Lightning (Part 1)
Christopher Hanlon - Dreams of Summer in Winter
Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 3)
Christopher Hanlon – Pacific
Tides – Wound
Runaway Horses - Early Birds Chatter
Christopher Hanlon - Dancing Light
Lauge, Low Profile – Lös
Erik Mowinckel - Som et Ekko
Rhucle - Iroha II
Runaway Horses - Abandoned in the Fields
Martin Nonstatic - Beyond Lightning (Part 2)
ASC – Solitude
Tides – Rest
Grotta Veterano - In Childhood
Innesti - Flutter and Haze
theAdelaidean / Steve Roach - North Parallel
Innesti - Conservatory

I would especially like to thank the people behind Dewtone Recordings, Ambient Soundscapes, Ultimae Records and Steve Roach for their constant inspiration.

Sectio Divina aka Nomatrixx @ Uroczysko Festival 2024 - Ambient Stage [11.08.2024]

Our studio promoset for 2023 

Follow us here: https://www.facebook.com/AlphaHypnotica

Alpha Hypnotica - Promoset 2023

🎼
Zen Baboon - Optimist Bees
Cosmic Fools - Be Yourself
Zoungla - Great Mountain of Life
Cosmosis - Dubadelic
Reasonandu - Solaris
Suduaya - Nidahasa
Robert Elster - Lizard Tales
E-Mantra - Tales from the Igloo
Sysyphe - Light On The Labyrinth
E-Mantra - Your Journey Begins Now
I.M.D - Un Nuevo Florecer
Sikha Pros & J.P.illusion - Steel Tongue
Lab's Cloud - The Petals Knowledge
Ancient Core - A Pinch Of Spiciness
Artifact303 - Creation
Green Beats - The Beach
🙏

*broadcasted on Harmonium®Chill Station in 2022

Be Yourself (psychill downtempo mix)

psychill set recorded on Chill Air fullmoon festival on Black sea  🙏🎼
[from 2015 archive]

On cover: 
Circle of Satori 
Art by Philip Straub

Moonsong (psychill set @ Chill Air Festival 2015)

YouTube streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPi_z9Qi_S8&ab_channel=Signos

Deep in the Mexican/Caribbean/jungle, the astonishing Babel rises like a sci-fi dream. This live set by Zen Baboon captures the essence of a sunset spent vibing to psy and organic downtempo beats within the walls of Babel, an architectural marvel in Tulum's modern hotel scene.
Let the hypnotic and organic rhythms transport you to a world where music meets nature.

Unfortunately Daniel couldn't make it for the live streaming.
Massive thank you to the Signos crew and the Babel Tulum hotel.
Show them some love:

Signos: https://www.instagram.com/signos_sessions/
Babel Tulum: https://www.instagram.com/babel.tulum/

Zen Baboon Live @ Babel (Tulum) 2025

I'm excited to share this with those who were present and for those who weren't i hope i distilled some of the experience. It was an honour to play this set on the wonderful Gardens stage at Boom festival.

With much love <3

Boom Festival - The Gardens - 2025

Sunset mix by the desert lake Lipence on stage Mashrabiya @ BAZAAAR CZ 2025

Enjoy your desert journey!

Mashrabiya Stage @ BAZAAAR CZ 2025

𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗡𝗢. 1 
𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘗𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴
••• this is the first episode of my "Sunday Sound Experiments" series. Something i started just as a little "hygge" project, to show you a bit of what i do when i search for new material, get to know a new synth or plugin, record with different types of microphones, try off composition techniques or get an assignment from friends, school mates or teachers.
These episodes are gonna be released on sundays, maybe not all sundays but as many as possible and for as long as its fun. They are mostly gonna be non mastered and not too polished either, to give a more authentic and raw picture of my creative process.
••• The first episode is made only with the plugin Pigments from Arturia. A little gift i got not long ago from one of my dearest and closest.
The experiment contains one sequencer, one pad and one sub.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 1 - Marry me Arturia Pigments

𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗡𝗢. 2 - 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦
••• This week in sound art school (Hogwarts) we had about different minimalistic composition techniques.
Somehow this didn't feel that unfamiliar to me. I never really intentionally used techniques like phasing and note addition or heard about metamorphosis and augmentation, but using some of these to compose with, wasn't very far from the way I already do it. 
For sure, it made me understand even more about how much i love the simple, the repetitive and the "telling about everything with almost nothing". 
It seems like sounds become even bigger when they stand alone.
This experiment is made with Pigments using the techniques drone, phasing and ostinato.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 2 - Less is more

𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗡𝗢. 3
𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢'𝘴 𝘓𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺
••• This weeks sound experiment is actually more than 6 months old. Just when the covid-19 lockdown startet in Denmark back in march some of my school mates, me and a teacher startet giving each other assignments. 
So my friend Laura's assignment to all of us was  "How does the night sound". 
This experiment is supposed to show the phase from going to bed, hearing the sound of the room and slowly falling asleep, diving into our other reality - our dreams.
It is made with recordings of me playing violin, a flowerpot that sounds like a singing bowl, a wooden whisk and a bamboo straw, massive and pigments.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 3 - Laura's Lullaby

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 4 - Pachamama
••• These are the days of great transformation. I think it is for all of us, both globally but also personally. We see our own worst sides and we also see the best. We have a choice of what to keep in our lives and what to leave behind. The second lockdown is on and the corona madness is peaking more than ever, the winter solstice is just around the corner and tomorrow the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is happening. 
While all this intens energy are at its highest, i would like to do a little repost in this episode of my sunday sound experiments. A piece i did back in march when the first lockdown started here in Denmark. A reminder of how beautiful our mother earth can be and how she would sound when feeling the best. Maybe also a reminder of how beautiful we can be both as individuals but also together.
Because we, our planet and the universe are all one i believe.
This one is made with Omnisphere, the sound of a river and various animal sounds i found on Soundly.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 4 - Pachamama

••• On this last sunday of the year i decided to stay in bed all day, cuddling a bit with Ableton and this super nice free plugin called Wolno, i got a while ago.
Here in Denmark its raining and storming full power! Not very cozy winter vibes to be honest... but a good excuse to stay indoor and create my own little winter wonderland.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 5 - Winter loop

⫷ TOUR DATES 2024 ⫸

Concerts
༶ God Goes Deep, Copenhagen DK, January 14th
༶ Rendezvous Tipper&Friendz, Florida US, May 5th
༶ Irina Mikhailova & AYO, Freiburg DE, August 17th

Plantwalk Workshops
༶ Åben Festival, Copenhagen DK, September 15th

HEIMR - Interactive sound and dance performance
༶ Teater Momentum, Odense DK, October 4th

… more tbh

For bookings: ayoambient@gmail.com 

AYO is the solo project of danish composer, producer and sound artist Julie Schønherr Rosengreen.
AYO has been touring all over Europe since 2015. She has been playing in Morocco and The United States.
Some of the festivals she performed at includes Boom Festival, Ozora Festival, Freqs of Nature festival, Anthropos, Hadra and The Rendezvous - Tipper&Friends in Florida.
She has been performing for The Danish National Bank, at the beautiful Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, composed music for the theater play “Anna Walk With Me” and currently she is working both with installation art and performance art, making interactive and generative sound with plants, water and the human body. 
In 2020 she released her debut album Moto on Sofa Beats records. This was followed by several single & compilation releases on labels like Microcosmos records, Altar records and the danish female label SØNTH collective.
Her second album is soon due for release.

AYO strives to send a message of a more harmonious cohesion with nature, with each other and with ourselves. By incorporating nature elements into her performance, she tries to give nature back the voice it has lost. Giving the listener a chance to emphasise with it, by letting plants and water generate the sounds they hear, in an always evolving and generative pattern, which makes every performance new and unique.
Combining that with playing live hardware synths and her classical influenced compositions, the listener is presented with an experience of nature meeting electronics and the deeper emotional self -floating in to a world of dreamy and melodic soundscapes, dynamic pads, processed foleys and recorded ambience.
AYO has been playing and composing music since she was a child. With a background as a violinist and as a classical musician, the ambient genre was later a place where she felt at home and where she could express and unfold herself freely. 
She has a bachelor degree in electronic music and sound art from The Danish National Academy of Music. Here she has honed her expression and further developed her "voice" in order to be able to stand stronger with her message and vision.

SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 3 - Laura's Lullaby

AYO

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