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"Soulcaster" is the third solo record by Brooklyn-based composer/performer Joanna Mattrey. Following Live in Accord and various Notice Recordings-curated performances in the Hudson Valley, this album is a further development in our years-long friendship. With "Soulcaster", Mattrey scrapes, scratches, and wails on viola, prepared viola, and a tromba marina, built by Webb Crawford. Mattrey’s love of unique and unusual sounds has inspired her to alter the pure tone of the viola through preparations with styrofoam, plastic toys, chains, and other objects. But the newest sounds in her arsenal come from the tromba marina, which has one primary playing string and thirteen sympathetic strings. Rather than gently coaxing out the harmonics, as the historical playing style suggests, Mattrey employs a raucous and roaring approach.

The title, "Soulcaster", is borrowed from Brandon Sanderson’s book series, "The Stormlight Archive". In the fantasy series, a soulcaster is an instrument that transforms one object or life form into another. Mattrey’s practice connects heavily to the idea of transformation. She uses preparations and objects not only to create new sounds from her instruments, but to embrace the unknown. No matter how many times the same object has been used, depending on the vibrations on a given day, the preparations might bring out totally different sounds. This randomness creates a joyful challenge for Mattrey, who believes that especially during improvisation, music has its own life that activates and guides the sound forward. Mattrey surrenders to this energetic line of sound over the eleven tracks featured on this tape.

NTR076 - Joanna Mattrey - Soulcaster - [Sing Out]

Grietas

a little chill piece focusing on 4ms Sampler, Looping Delay and Ensemble Oscillator.

4ms Suite

Low empty tower

When sight came back

SenSen - LeC II

Sunday night I performed an ambient set of vocals at a gathering near Wales, this is the ending as i only started recording over an hour into the set... enjoy!

Aug 23 Bank Holiday Live Ambient Vocal Improvisation

Dissolved's "Island Flux" album reimagined. https://section27.bandcamp.com/album/island-flux-remixes [S27-201]

Island Flux remixes brings together a diverse group of artists who were given the raw elements from Dissolved's 2022 album "Island Flux". Given no restrictions, each artist has placed their own unique stamp on the tracks, resulting in a collection that stretches and morphs into new expanses while allowing the ghosts of the originals to still exist.
The original album cover depicted an unknown and strangely isolated island, located 'somewhere'.
To reflect the way these remixes expand and change the originals, the orignal photo has been artificially expanded, revealing a new expanse of ocean and sky, somehow making the island even more remote and mysterious and allowing the music to take you on a different voyage.





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http://dissolved.bandcamp.com

DISSOLVED: Island Flux Remixes [previews]

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When sight came back

The Middle Aged Man