
SOUNDSCAPES VOL. 1
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“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.” – Lawrence Durrell
While a natural landscape is almost always a kind of scenery, which we look at through the constraint of our body, the sounds of the acoustic world surround us. That is, we can hear a sound behind us and this applies to the rain that falls, the cars that pass outside our window, the cicadas that sing incessantly in the summer. In addition, the sounds that can compose a soundscape are not solid shapes that are hidden from each other, which means that according to the rules of optics, a soundscape will always be “transparent”.
Ion’s new ambient album consists of 20 artificial soundscapes designed with the express intention of calming down any annoying or disturbing sonic backgrounds around the listener. As these sound soundscapes have the ability to “absorb” any auditory disturbances, each of them may also function in a loop-mode as an acoustic beacon or as a pattern of concentric circles surrounding the listener like transparent curtains, in many layers that extend beyond the urban environment.
“Soundscapes Vol. 1” is for the most part a meditative search project, building slowly and carefully with every breath and every step of a 2:22 minute drone. Some of these soundscapes may give the impression of an uplifting mood, but they all exude a somber air around them; never peaking beyond just a few short notes as they always “go off” once again after their short lifespan.
ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΑ
- 01DAUGHTER LOOP INTERSECTION
- 02ANCHOR POINT EXPANSION
- 03LEFT IN THE SUN
- 04ORANGE FACTORY
- 05SHE SINGS FOR THE SEA
- 06WATER LILY LAKE
- 07LAND OF THW MIDNIGHT SUN
- 08SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF EOLIAN SAND
- 09AEGINA
- 10SAGE FIELD
- 11DAY ONE WITHOUT HER
- 12REDSHIFT
- 13SLEEPING ON THE ROOF
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- 15DIMMA
- 16NOW SEE WHAT FOLLOWS
- 17PENGUIN POST OFFICE
- 18LOOKING FROM OUTSIDE OF TIME
- 19YOU WERE NEVER HERE
- 20HE WAS WALKING AWAY