This is an excerpt of my 2011 full-length entitled Orbital Decay, Released on Vacant Tape Recordings.  

Orbital Decay (excerpt)

Soundscape produced for the Haunted Weather radio program on CITR. The track is a condensed reworking of a portion of the Orbital Decay material. 

Convex Reflections

"At the Crest of the Sinking Sands" is a track from a forthcoming cassette to be released by Prairie Fire Tapes in the fall of 2011.

At the Crest of the Sinking Sands

/ 16:45 / February 27, 2017 / 49°17'33.74"N, 123° 1'35.48"W /Beneath the Second Narrows/ The Second Narrows Bridge connects East Vancouver with North Vancouver, and I think is one of the only bridges that has a footpath directly underneath it with an adjacent dirt mound that can be climbed / The nice thing about this bridge is one can actually get directly beneath the highway / During the day it’s as if the whole bridge shakes from the weight of the passing cars / Spontaneously, I decided to climb down the mound during the recording and walk the path for a short while / Near the end of the recording you can hear a bike go by me / Again, there is an interesting juxtaposition happening here, with much of the recording focused on overbearing car travel, but then ending on a lone biker as they’re about to enter a forest / It’s a recording of two separate and very different realities //

Recorded as part of Bivouac Recordings' 60 Minute Cities: Vancouver.

Beneath The Second Narrows

unprocessed hydrophone recording from a piece of ice in a fountain in towntown Vancouver. January, 2012. 

ice fountain (hydrophone)

Desire Paths of the Sun & Moon -- 

The music that makes up Desire Paths of the Sun & Moon arose from humble beginnings. Every sound heard came from inside a backlog of dated and poorly recorded analog tape experiments and ambient “jam” sessions. This backlog was mined for what little salvageable material was available, then minimally tweaked and recontextualized for the album. This is the sound of struggle. The music is filled with petrified drones and crumbling string and piano vibrations, as if these sounds are purposefully moving toward nonexistence. Within this sad unraveling one might find a moment or two of beauty in which to linger. 

credits
released February 5, 2018 

Music materialized from salvaged recordings of home tape experiments. 
All tracks by Adrian Dziewanski. 

Design by Rottenman Editions 
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Artcover & Photography by Meneh Peh 
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An excerpt of a recording from the "Island Terminus" sessions. 

Ferry One - Passenger Deck

An excerpt of a contact mic recording from the "Island Terminus" session.

Ferry Two - Vessel Feedback

Info and ordering: https://alcoholseed.com/2018/04/23/adrian-dziewanski-the-trail-loops-back-alsd02-ib012/

A Common Dust (from The Trail Loops Back, Alcohol Seed / Invisible Birds, 2018)

Adrian Dziewanski is a musician, music writer and poet living in Vancouver, BC. Under his given name Dziewanski utilizes environmental recordings, found sound, and prepared instruments as pathways into deep-time sonic meditation. His music harkens to an exquisite stasis that was once the focus of western music’s ambient forefathers and foremothers. He also records as Riverkeeper, where he utilizes crude analog systems and magnetic tape as a rebuttal to a soulless, hyperdigital era. He believes in a steadfast approach to repetition and welcomes happenstance as a way to breathe life into the experimental arts. The artist’s interest in Japanese aesthetics, such as wabi-sabi — its emphasis on transience, impermanence, asymmetry, and loneliness — informs his life, and is at the center of all of his work.

Dziewanski’s music has been published by Gruenrekorder, Prairie Fire, 23five, Bivouac Recordings, Invisible Birds, and Rottenman Editions.

Adrian Dziewanski / Riverkeeper