The experience of totality can be perceived but not narrated. It will fill your mind with words, concepts, even ideas about how to realize that state again, how to recreate it. It will be a narrative, storytelling or even just an emotional exclamation, but essentially it all simply an endlessly flowing form, disappearing in the singular state of the totality. The same way as with black holes, we can articulate asymptotically, but only silence will tell the whole truth. A special kind of silence, which is always there, behind any sound. As Kasimir Malevich stated: the purpose of music is silence. But silence is also its root. That mutual duality is probably just one of the many which can be applied to that matter. Yet, it's also the cornerstone of drone music or any music in general. To get inside that "stone", to experience it as the thing-in-itself there's a dual way as well – through constant consciousness evolution conjoined with belief that asymptotic approaching has its end there; or though the ascension, an immediate connection with the essence of that thing through intuition which transcends dualities, denying all the categories of rational thinking, merging the consciousness with any thing and all the things in one. Both ways are exquisitely intertwined in our mind and through them it exists. The initial duality of Being, the only answer to which is silent emptiness.
Artwork by Taras Yakobchuk [dropsumart]
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Track 1 recorded at home, in the woods and live at St. Petersburg's Sound Musem [ESG-21] using sinewave generators, tape loops and field recordings and being mixed from all these recordings directly on tape.
Track 2 recorded at home using tape loops and mixer feedback.
This is a lovely piece of music to lose yourself in, or maybe to fall asleep to, as it caresses you with a gentle drone in its undulating waves of sound. Wave upon wave crashes upon you as you gently drift into a hinterland of consciousness, yet you do not care as the resonances are washing every thought away. Just jump into the waves, add some flanging, and its a brilliantly crafted ride. Krylda
The Italian composer and synthesizer player crafts panoramic views, letting phrases blossom from small ideas into explosions. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 8, 2022