Name: 1. How to Become a Ghost (Without Dying) by Disparition in In.A.Walled.City
Duration: 10 min 55 s
Description: In their holy shadows we climbed and staggered

A musical series of dreams, fragmented and displaced over two centuries, depicting futures of geography and culture. This story is nonlinear. The work is "serial" in the sense of its music but it is non chronological and you may enter at any point.

In.A.Walled.City

MGC ONK - Without Numbers

A song co-written by moi and my friend Allison, who plays her cello beautifully. We hope you enjoy!
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I’m running through this house of mirrors
All I can see is my reflection
We all live in this house of mirrors
The only way out is in.

Is this my reality? Are these pixels on my TV?
Are these moments genuine? Is my life even mine?
I was born within these halls, I am plastered on these thin walls
every turn I see another version of myself.
These walls never shatter, the glass is ever bending 
They control the latter, the shift is never ending
I can tell no longer which one of me is real
I don’t think it matters anyway.

I’m running through this house of mirrors
All I can see is my reflection
We all live in this house of mirrors
The only way out is in.

What is our reality? Darkness and brutality?
Lethality, morality, mortality, normality?
There’s nothing that was meant to be, no manifest destiny
there is only is and how it seems to be.
There’s nothing here that matters and nothing here that doesn’t
there’s nothing here that ever was and nothing here that wasn’t
and pathways twisting, turning, fill you up with quiet yearning
for somewhere where you know you’ve found your way.

Stop asking for reality, it’s no better than a screen.
I can bend these walls and make them melt the way I want.
I was blind but now I see: you can’t run and you can’t leave
and objects in these mirrors may be closer than they seem
glass can never shatter, it only can be twisted
no matter how hard we punch – angry and tight-fisted
it’s not about escaping, or looking for the door
I don’t want to get out anymore.

I’m running through this house of mirrors
All I can see is my reflection
We all live in this house of mirrors
The only way out is in.


Out Is In

Two Lives

G minor sonata

E major sonata

Surface Tension is excited to launch a new regular podcast series with an inaugural mix from one of our residents, Nihar Bhatt. 

Nihar has been a presence for years in the Bay Area dark electronics landscape. In 2009 he co-founded Warm Leatherette, the DIY minimal wave/post-punk club night that in 2013 evolved into Surface Tension, where sounds shifted to a more EBM-, industrial- and experimentally-minded techno perspective. Nihar makes music as Nine, and as one half of Sutures, a collaboration with Baltimore-based producer Alex Bennett.

Tracklist:

Coil - A Cold Cell - (Cold Spring) - 2015
Himadri - Lucid Lure - (Plus 8) - 1994
L/F/D/M - No Cure - (Ecstatic) - 2015
Steve Moore - Panther Moderns - (L.I.E.S.) - 2012
Shinichi Atobe - Plug and Delay - (Distort Decay Sustain) - 2015 (reissue from 2001 original)
Unit Moebius - Dolphinarium - (Interr-Ference Communications) - 1994
Patricia - Life is a Hideous Thing - (Opal Tapes) - 2015
Panasonic - Radiokemia - (Blast First) - 1995
Biosphere - M I R - (Apollo) - 1994
Sean Deason - The Shit - (Distance) - 1995 
Dempa - Scabulous - (Akute) - 2015
DBX - Spock’s Brain - (Accelerate) - 1995
Obtane - A Thunder Will Purify Us - (Semantica) - 2013 
Oscar Mulero - Stimulated Reflex - (Pole) - 2015
Phase Fatale - Rot - (a+w II) - 2015
Realmz - Architecture of Time - (Sonic Groove) - 2015
Arcing Seas - Incal - (Our Circula Sound) - 2015
Rrose - Vellum - (Eaux) - 2015
Antigone - Enter - (Token) - 2015
Casual Violence - Acceptance of the Fact at Hand - (Sect) - 2011
Sutures - Bind - (Ascetic House) - 2015

Surface Tension Podcast 1- Nihar Bhatt

Otik - Memoria

Taken from Cosmin TRG's EP Sportiv 005 on Sportiv, out May 31.

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SPORTIV 005

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1. How to Become a Ghost (Without Dying)

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seen and marked, near silent drifter
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may your wiring be gutted and pulled
may your quietness fill you
may their ear be clogged

tiny drifter, shining beetle on a ribbon
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