Dark Ambient: Unchill

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Cem:
We have been working on this project with Mira for a while. Following Mira’s Curated Playlist contribution we discussed different ways in which music can enrich “the meme experience.” She kindly created this sound piece that is meant to be listened to while looking at memes on your phone.

Mira:
Classical music lovers will acknowledge that all releases of a piece of music vary and are open to interpretation. Pop music lovers are used to cover versions… Monteverdi has done something unusual for the baroque song I rearranged for this project. Commenting on the soprano part in the introduction to the Lamento, he left a note saying the singer should sing “according to her emotions” while the other singers and musicians are to follow the directions of the written score. He inbuilt variation and virality into the piece.
If you open Youtube and search for “Lamento della Ninfa” you will come across thousands of videos by amateurs and professionals alike. Thousands of variations and mutations sing out, some slow, some fast, some delicate, some wild. Despite the age of the piece, it’s still very much alive and viral… with a continuous stream of new releases and uploads… they keep mutating and imitating. And so it is from this particular ancient element of culture, passed by non-generic means that I have shaped a sound collage… cutting and pasting, and fusing, and moving through all these hundreds of variations to create perhaps the most dramatic soundtrack for your meme scrolling…

https://www.art--market.com/product/the-meme-kit

by other means (la ninfa)

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https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/floor-9

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READ > https://inverted-audio.com/zaumne-parfum-sferic 

Manchester-based @sferic-records invite Polish musician Mateusz Olszewski aka @zaumne to release his latest full length album. Replete with vaporised dub-pop, dreamlike ambient sounds, and cameos from YL Hooi, Metoronori, plus the muted sax of Patrick Shiroishi, ‘Parfum‘ is a remarkable ambient album that will leave you in a haze.

Vinyl in stock on Inverted Audio Store: https://bit.ly/43djaWW

Parfum

Zaumne - Nymphes [sferic]

In November 2020, KMRU self-released ‘Drawing Water’. The release contained 3 supple works of porous resonance and intimate motion, giving way to a very heartfelt body of work that peers directly into the fabric of the everyday; gestures, movement, conversation, rendered graciously into waveform.

Now, Vaagner is proud to present a special edition vinyl and cassette reissue of ‘Drawing Water’ via its A Sunken Mall imprint, with the original material spanning the first side of the record in remastered from.

Drawing

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Excerpt from NNA88: Jake Meginsky "Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes"
Available March 18, 2016 on Cassette & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes

Jake Meginsky  "Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes" (excerpt)

Taken from album 'Heaven' released as LP and Digital

Heaven

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Purchase: secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/embers
Catalog #: GN62
August 20, 2020
LP+DIGI

Secret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC’s resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey. Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International and collaborated with the likes of Loscil, Abbey makes his Geographic North debut with 'Embers,' Secret Pyramid’s most sincerely solemn and curiously calming work to date.

Embers’ six pieces find Abbey furroughing a few of his most trusted tools (including Ondes Martenot, sampler, Space Echo, two tape machines, and a computer), while taking a more compositional approach than his past works. This method opened entirely new aural possibilities and allowed Abbey to consider, manipulate, and re-consider each passing tone. The end result is an exquisitely enveloping work of contemporary ambient music that is equally inspired by and spiritually linked to influential French composer Olivier Messiaen, the progenitors of Dub, and a number of ephemeral oddities in between. 

Sonically, 'Embers' reveals some of Secret Pyramid’s most minimal and open works yet. Certain pieces (such as “Pins,” “Particles,” and “Ohms”) employ a single instrument or sound source with only a modicum of manipulation. This “less is more” approach gave each sound actual room to breathe and find a balance of beauty and dissonance, and the magical transition between the two.

Emotionally, the music was created during a particularly turbulent time in Abbey’s life, allowing him to process things musically. In his own words, “It’s a reflection of the impermanent, shifting, and fleeting aspects of our lives, both the good and the bad, that often spark something inside of us. Aspects of our daily existence, and the self (whether our emotions, surroundings, relationships,) that are constantly morphing, disappearing, reappearing, burning out, reigniting, and so forth, metaphorically like flares or embers.”

Secret Pyramid - "Flares"

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