About 15 minutes into this week’s TANK mix, a low drone appears, as if emanating from the core of the earth. Two male voices appear, one musing on the Buddhist disciple Milarepa, the other in what sounds like a religious chant, as the rumble beneath them swells and shifts. Although the piece in question is by Éliane Radigue, it neatly mirrors the artistry of Atkinson, whose output straddles ambient and ASMR without ever fully aligning with either format. The artist, who also runs Shelter Press, creates soundscapes of disquieting intimacy and pure timbre. Naturalistic textures - rain, birdsong, low whispers - conjure an ambiguous sense of space, suggesting the depths and mysteries of the world we inhabit. When TANK asked her about what inspired this mix, she shared the following Frank O'Hara poem:

TODAY by Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas!
You really are beautiful! Pearls,
harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all
the stuff they’ve always talked about

still makes a poem a surprise!
These things are with us every day
even on beachheads and biers. They
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.

[1950]

Tracklist:
Marisa Anderson Tara Jane O Neil : You’d be so nice to come home to
BBC archive of a waterfall
Claire Rousey & Patrick Shiroshi: silent moon
Eliane Radigue: Songs of Milarepa / Elimination of desires
Morton Feldman: Last pieces
Luc Ferrari: Presque Rien avec filles
Harold Budd: L’Enfant Perdu
Félicia Atkinson: If there is no Where ( Music piece for the Riga Biennale)
Kassel Jaeger: Shifted in dreams

photo credit: Eleonore Huisse

TANK Mix: Félicia Atkinson, "harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all"

Toward Ambient

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discomfort music. noise & ambient. https://gantz-discomfortmusic.bandcamp.com/

ambiance and meditation.

Cara Mayer is Cardboard Lamb


Recommended for fans of...
discordant folk and narrative soundscapes,
water flutes in the shape of a bird,
sad DJs with a sense of humour, 
your upstairs neighbour who practices the saxophone each night

at eight, 

on the dot

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Visual artist and accumulator of images with which he manufactures rhythms and movements. He mixes animation techniques with digital photogrammetry processes to produce synesthesia in live acts.

TANK Mix: Félicia Atkinson, "harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all"

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