Deep Listening incoming 👂

Our inaugural mix in a new series that represents the celestial exploration between light, sound and setting.

For this, @frazershelton gifted us a striking fusion of sound. He took the opportunity to build it using Ableton Live, which is a method he hasn't previously used.

The software allowed him to layer multiple tracks on top of each other, meaning the process felt more like a composition than a traditional DJ mix. He wanted to purposely blur the lines between individual tracks, and take the opportunity to play with combinations, tones and textures in a more considered way than using regular decks, or a more linear method of recording a mix. 

Ultimately he is aiming for consistency of mood, and a sense of flow, despite using tracks spanning the last 50+ years (the oldest track on this collection dates from 1970). He is particularly happy with the inclusion of the track ‘Nike’ from the seminal ‘Deep Listening’ release (by Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, and Panaioitis), which feels very aligned with the ethos behind the resonance series of events. He is delighted to give the Nigel Mullaney track (‘TSL Set 2’) an airing too, which uses Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech to great effect: it’s good to have a reminder of our insignificant place in the cosmos.

The artwork is a collaboration between Mark Wagner @mark_wagner_33 and Adam Kahan @adkahan. Mark creates cymatics from his sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

Tracklisting

Higher Intelligence Agency — U.H.I.
The London Studio Orchestra — Strange Location No. 3
Alva Noto — Xerrox Neige
Biosphere — With Precious Benefits to Both
Move D — Ein Soundfoto aus dem Goldenen Dreieck
State Azure —Amidst Emptiness
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis — Nike
Steve Roach — Quiet Friend
Gunnar Haslam — Camare Aperte
Carlos Niño & Friends — Love to All Doulas!
HVL — Teapot Limhi
Purelink — We Should Keep Going
Geins’t Nait + Scanner + L. Petitgand — Gabriel Scan LP1
Shapeshifter — Tranquil Vapor
Nigel Mullaney — TSL Set 2
Abfahrt Hinwil — Phase IV
Arovane — Laap
Ital Tek — Vesper

episode I ~ w/ Frazer Shelton

We are honored to share this mix, as a memory in time by Monkey Rob, for his upcoming set at Natural Endings, Todmorden, 23rd November 2024.

also 
@thereisneverenoughmonkeys
@netil-radio

Tracklisting

Welcome:

Eskifaia — Kyrie 

Let’s go for a walk:

Haizea — Egunaren hastapena
Nana Vasconcelos — O berimbau
Field recording — Guarani & Kaiowá shamans at UCL, London, 2024
Bobvan — Water dragon
Indian Wells — Night arp blues 
Field recording — resonance by the Pond w/ Avril & John Haycock, Hebden Bridge, 2024
Mira Calix — Soundtrack to our time
Raymond Scott — Cyclic bit
Faff — Nuzzle2
Infinite Monkeys — From Hollywood to Rome 
Muslimgauze — Mullah said
Field recording — A mosque surroundings in Fes, Morocco, 2024
David Byrne — Machu Picchu 
Lord of the Isles & Elle Renton — Let the colours flood in 
Spygeist — Hanged 
Infinite Monkeys — Gnominous ominous 
Field recording — resonance by the Pond, Gordo’s book, Hebden Bridge, 2024
Biosphere — Hyperborea
Edward Griffiths — Sunday church

Farewell:

Paul Earls — Monday music
Special guest — From Greece

The artwork is a collaboration between Mark Wagner and Adam Kahan. Mark creates cymatics from his sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

We would like to dedicate this mix, to the birth of new light, Sasha Birge Andzhanovskii 💙🔥♏️

episode II ~ w/  Monkey Rob

The Witches of Eagle Crag - Sampler

@E2-E8's Luca journeys through an eclectic mix of Italian folk, psychedelia, and classic ambient works from the 70s to today at the Burning of The Clavie at @markandmarko.

The artwork is a collaboration between Adam and Mark to create cymatics from his sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

You can listen on Soundcloud, there’s a link above in the tree 🌲 X

Tracklist:
Alessandro Pizzin – Sunset On The Hill (Selected Works 1981-1993)
Walter Maioli, Nirodh Fortini – Esecuzione di suoni campionati con l’aggiunta di filtri (2001)
Telaio Magnetico – Live ’75 Parte III (1995)
Nirodh Fortini, Walter Maioli, Fred Gales, Raffaele Serra, John Zandijk, 
Edward Luyken – Ethnoelectronics (1986)
Juri Camisasca – Evoluzione Interiore (2018, Recorded in 1978)
Futuro Antico – Isole Del Suono (2016, Recorded in 1980)
Rosso Polare – Mana (2023)
Giovanni Di Domenico – Duos With Guitars (With Norberto Lobo) (2015)
Moon On The Water – Song Of The Veil Nebula (1985)
Valentina Magaletti – Rotta, Part One (2022)
Alessandro Cortini – Spie, Ovest (2016)
Donato Dozzy & Daniele Di Gregorio – Buchla & Marimba, Sessione 5 (2021)
Tommaso Cappellato & Astral Travel – World Traveller (Sitting Under A Tree Donato Dozzy Remix) (2016)

episode III ~ w/ Luca

Alex Murray (narrator) is the librarian and archivist at the Swedenborg Society in Holborn, a 200-year-old institution dedicated to promoting the thought and influence of the Swedish C18 scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. 

This wide-ranging talk, recorded at The Burning of the Clavie at MKII in January 2025, summarises the philosophy and teachings of Swedenborg, his relevance to resonance, and introduces Sam Mcloughlin and David Chatton Barker’s @folklore-tapes performance of their electro-acoustic work ‘Heavenly Realms’, which was written and conceived after their residency at the Swedenborg Society.

Swedenborg’s most renowned work, Heaven and Hell (1758), synthesised years of dreams, trance states and ecstatic communications with angels into a complete vision of the afterlife and the spiritual realms. In it Swedenborg meticulously details a stratified order of the heavens, an ultimate reality within which physical matter relates to spirit through divine correspondences emanating from a highest, purest echelon, God.

The duo approach this vision of eternity through music created entirely with a collection of antique clock chimes and harmonics, and as Alex outlines in his talk, the music is a living embodiment of Swedenborg philosophy.

📷: ‘The Valley of the Shadow of Death’ 1867 by George Inness, inspired by Swedenborg’s teachings

Alex Murray discusses Swedenborgianism

@syberkid creates a journey through the flames, leaving us with the burning embers of an eclectic mix of drone and ambient harmony. This was recorded live at the ‘Burning of The Clavie’ at MKII in London, on January 11th 2025.

This artwork is a collaboration between Sybil, Adam, and Mark, creating cymatics of sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series, we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

episode IV ~ w/ Sybil

The Tree of The Left Hand (Sampler)

Recorded on January 11th 2025, London, MKII, at the 'Burning of the Clavie'. adam creates a journey into mystical realms, including field recordings throughout his winter period, most notably Solstice celebrations, crescendoing with a jubilant hand-fast ceremony.

This artwork is a collaboration between adam and Mark Wagner, creating cymatics of sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series, we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

'May there be peace in the North, 
May there be peace in the South, 
May there be peace in the West, 
May there be a deep peace in the East'

Tracklisting:
1 Kohta — Multicast Dynamics
2 Field Recording: widdop water ext — adam
3 Field Recording: stonehenge-drums — adam
4 Pentre — Ifan Llyn Y Cwn
5 Bela — klaus
6 Initiation — Refracted
7 Reverie — Refracted 
8 Nucleo — Profondo
9 Equinox Raphael — Rogiń​ski
10 Vagus Nerve — Hoch Ma Toch
11 nocturnal (ft. Malvern Brume) — mu tate
12 Une Ombre Légère — Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
13 Breathing In Three Orbits — Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
14 Hadal Zone — Valentino Mora
16 Colonisation — Anthony Child 
16 Ione — Pauline Oliveros
17 Field Recording: stonehenge-merlin — adam

episode V ~ w/ adam

recorded at live natural endings, todmorden 12042025

we’re honoured to host this live recording of thorn wych. the event was a magik gathering for the community and we want to thank everyone involved.

artwork is a blend of mark and adam creating a cymatic synergy of local elements and sound.

episode VI ~ w/ Thorn Wych

ahead of our next gathering, resonance regular @ahrkh, a.k.a, alex macarte founder of golden ratio frequencies label, nts host, and member of psych-noise veterans gnod has gifted us this 2 hour resonance mix, recorded live at a secret outdoor location in late April, just outside of hebden bridge, west yorkshire, during what was a beautiful blooming spring!

this heady mix is a journey through sounds and genres that tunes into the frequency of this very special secluded space, which we will soon visit for a mysterious gathering of souls…

“when resonance invited me to record a live dj set, outdoors, in a private secluded off-grid location this spring, I obviously jumped at the chance! I knew if Resonance were involved, there would definitely be some magic afoot! And I was not wrong. Surrounded by streams, trees, birds, flowers in bloom and blue skies and sunshine, this was little slice of utopian paradise! 

with only a handful of us laying back to enjoy the natural surroundings and with no plan as to what I would play, I could really zone in and just melt into the environment, going with the flow as the sounds of the the birds, water and leaves in the spring breeze intertwined with music, creating a symbiotic sound world or rest and peace.

a little private portal place that I’m happy to share with you all now. I look forward to being back there!” 

to get a flavour of his upcoming set at said gathering, lock in and ride the ambient, ethereal journey with us, through the dripping waters of the calder valley, with field recordings from the recording location mixed into the sounds from an array of artists, from home and further afield.

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