Selected ambient works 2025

What Dreams May Come

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (SLT-008)

Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)

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Insect Roads (naviarhaiku603)

Walking

Etudes I

Working on a new project where I think the music should be heard only via earbuds/headphones.   Experimental, drone, noise, unclassifiable.
Not ambient.   Not industrial.   But 100% me.

music for headphones (as yet untitled)

melancholia #1

The Third Broadcast (Empty Words Ambient Mix)

September 6, 2025
for Terry Mullett
https://soundcloud.com/terry_mullett

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