Relaxation, a shower and doubts in the context of class differences but a new bathrobe describes the transition from the fully conscious to the unconscious state of the mind during a shower. A room filled with the sound of water drops and wet clapping hands, accompanied by the noise created by bottles clinging, able to both calm someone down and to create an intense moment, is a fertile ground for the chaos, that life serves on a regular basis, to arise in someone's mind. From them on, granulated sounds work as a metaphor of all the thoughts coming to a dazed, spaced-out mind in a non-specific timeline. A continuous rise of the intensity, the noise, the peaked overall sound and the sudden ending of the piece, leave the outcome of this transition unspecified.

Recordings of claps and water drops, bottles and boxes, as well as human conversations, and synthesized sounds by a 555 astable oscillator were used for the composing of the first part of the piece. Speeches and advertisements of random radio sources filtered  through the filter bank of the Behringer Model D, sawtooth waveforms of the Model D synthesizer, square waveforms of a 40106 chip (with 3 oscillators) and frequencies of an Arduino granular synthesizer as carriers, modulated by a circuit bended toy using a vactrol, granulated through PureData and edited in Ableton Live 10, were used for the second part of the piece. The overall mixing and editing was done in Ableton Live 10, using both built-in and external effects.

Yannis Mihos is an Athens based sound artist. Largely influenced by the urban environment, his politico-social perspective of reality, its connection to the rural environment of his uprising, as well as the social conditions that developed in each of these places independently, he uses noise, sound objects, analog and digital devices as his main sound materials focusing on creating and describing stories and relationships between people, objects and serving the imagery he wishes to convey. After completing his studies at the Contemporary Music Research Center, hosted by the Athens Conservatory, he composes and performs musical compositions, mainly influenced by the musique concrète movement and he creates sound installations using self-made or circuit bended electronic devices, field recordings and various objects.

Relaxation, a shower and doubts in the context of class differences but a new bathrobe

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