A view through the erygmascope

by Alex January

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1.	A view...part I 13:21	buy track
2.	A view...part II 13:40	buy track
3.	A view...part III 08:34	buy track
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What do you make of being locked inside your house for a whole season?

What do you make of long days of solitude?

The things that have stayed with me, at the end of this endless winter, are the deep listening sessions to familiar music, Ligeti, This heat, Miles' electric period, Partch, early Sonic Youth, Radigue, Curran, Tazartès, to name a few. And the intensive readings on how the lines between the living and the non-living are more and more blurred
(hazen.carnegiescience.edu/sites/default/files/186-ElementsIntro.pdf
www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/cells/viruses/a/are-viruses-dead-or-alive www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOCaacO8wus ...), which support my belief that life is not limited to organic forms.

My previous work Patched Fragments of Queen Crystalette had a somewhat open ending, so I wanted to start back from that. And I wanted to go further in the exploration of frequency cross-modulation and prepared guitar textures.I wanted a record with moments of absolute horizontality and moments of absolute verticality, almost static at times, pushed by telluric forces at others.

A geological record.

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released June 11, 2021

Cover image taken from Joachim Barrande's 'Système silurien du centre de la Bohême' (1852)

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