"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
Brian Eno
Substrate
The title describes the music appropriately. Everything is a surface where the music exists and the listener is merely an observer passing by.
These are not pieces to be enjoyed while getting a massage or contemplating your oneness with the universe. They are anxious, restless and evoke a sense of uneasiness that has no resolution.
Even the most accessible pieces such as kathedra or anemoi have underlying tension that suggests a discomfort with itself as if any tonality, however minimal, is out of place.
Mutase abandons all pretense of civility with its mash up of lo-fi, through the glass darkly drones, clicks and electronic rumbles. Strophic floats in mid-air like a muggy fog that envelops the listener.
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I Dream of Eos
These organic ambient pieces are a shifting continuum of emotional imagery and evocative sonic textures.
The sound is haunting and spartan. It's the sound of the world that lies beneath mind, perpetually shifting and pulsing with somatic activity.
It is the composer's attempt to capture the feelings, impressions, tension and beauty one hears in the quietest moments of consciousness.
At once both familiar and foreign, I Dream of Eos emanates from the fabric below our reality and links the listener to that unobservable region of space.
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