Ambient
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Twitter is alive with a side-splitting conspiracy theory this weekend. It would seem that U.S. President Donald Trump stepped off a plane with a Melania look-alike. I’ll leave it to you to decide for yourself. But while we must in all fairness consider the images inconclusive, the idea of Trump not being able to get…
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Vocalist Gretchen Jude and percussionist Kevin Corcoran have produced their debut as a duo. Hirakito is an expansive, 59-minute “exploration of space and time, warped via the lens of modern recording technology and the inclusive spirit of free improvisation” according to the album’s notes. It’s a synthesis of raw improv recordings captured in multiple settings.…
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David Koch dropped a pair of new DeWalta releases yesterday, one of which premiers a new offshoot of his Meander label called Horizon Pi. Lyra is a six-track double-LP that runs 56 minutes. That’s accompanied by a five-piece ambient disc called Lyra π. Koch’s work offers a level of sophistication too seldom found in house…
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Andrea Porcu’s latest is an engaging hour-long ambient piece that combines a variety of water recordings with deeply resonant drones. The album’s notes describe experiments with “the dilatation of sound,” a phrase I hadn’t heard before. (It has to do with the way sound waves pass through the air.) Porcu and I connected by email.…
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Writing in Psychology Today, David M. Greenberg Ph.D. describes research conducted at the University of Cambridge, by his team, on music taste and so-called brain types. Greenberg categorized people into three types: empathizers (those who care about others), systemizers (those interested in patterns and rules) and balanced (those with a mix of both). “Our studies…
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This piece’s title is intended to be taken literally. Andreas Usenbenz produced a soundscape incorporating objects, lo-fi and contact microphones, field recordings, guitar, ebow, looper, iPad, dictaphone, cassettes, tape loops, an OP-1 synthesizer and field kit, according to the album’s notes. Artist and Curator Andreas Pytlik responded to Usenbenz’s work – and vice versa –…
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