• Aim • News • Seas • Reviews • Contact • Extensions • Order • Visuals |Key Ray| MS 01 BIRDS OF TIN/ENE"Key Ray" -"Key Ray" a postal collaboration initiated by Scott Hudgins (ENE). I took Scott's original sounds and processed them into a series of textural waves, with reoccurring themes and motifs. Scott then readded his original sounds, a sort of reverse alchemical process. I was very pleased with the results and the idea of "keys" and "locks" which Scott suggested to comment on the recurring "rooms" of sound. The CD is like walking into different rooms in a house, taking in each rooms' distinctiveness while being fully aware that you are still surrounded by the same walls.- Birds Of Tin, May 2001. ........................................................................... The very first release on MYSTERY SEA takes the form of an original collaborative effort between US organic auralscapes creator Birds Of Tin (Brooke Oates) & multiactivist Ene (Scott Hudgins)... Here, they map out an haunted wandering into ever changing regions of calm looped tones with sporadic bursts of counterpoint abrasive elements... A slow flow of sounds mysteriously progressing and mutating with an hallucinatory effect...intuitive dark drones infused with half-remembered memories sketching an opiated path to an interzone between our innermost Self & natural phenomena... a psychogeographic metamorphosis... (AVAILABLE NOW !) |Encomium| MS 02 ULTRASOUND"Encomium" Main Entry : en·co·mi·um Pronunciation : en'kO-mE-&m Function : noun Inflected Form(s) : plural -mi·ums or en·co·mia/-mE-&/ Etymology : Latin, from Greek enkOmion, from en in + kOmos revel, celebration Date : 1589 : glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise. ENCOMIUM implies enthusiasm and warmth in praising a person or a thing. -Ultrasound's new cd-r is a glowing tribute to the multidimensional perception of time. Kirk Laktas (formerly of Stars Of The Lid) and Rfovetz use live computer-based sampling of their patented guitar and bass drones to carry the listener into a state of suspended animated aural perception. Recorded between 1996-1998, the release also includes the music from a dance perdormance/sound installation by Rfovetz in Den Haag, The Netherlands.- Rfovetz, August 2001. ........................................................................... Ultrasound's core are Rfovetz & Kirk Laktas. Together they outline a rippling tapestry of subliminal & hypnagogic sounds, one of the most beautiful haunting drone music to be heard today... In this they share more than common ground with STARS OF THE LID of whom Kirk Laktas has been a former member... The material featured on .encomium. has been recorded at various moments between 1996 & 1998...specifically collected for MYSTERY SEA, all pieces have carefully been chosen to form a flowing construction... Overall, the resulting "Ocean of sound" is warm, shrouding, deeply immersing, shaping up a language of new perceptions... .encomium. unfolds at the pace of quiet glistening waves, spreading their "dewdrop-particles" into the listener's mind, making him reach a state of subdued dazzle... A drop falls with a slight resonant echo as in a ceremonial of infinite reflections & overlapping circles, paving the way for a sharper insight... (AVAILABLE NOW!)     |White Chrysalis In Blue| MS 03 WILT "White Chrysalis In Blue" -I wanted to focus on aquatic activity where by there would be a symbolism for growth or life. I found a picture of a nuclear reactor where the outer sides of the image were black and these dark tubes seemed to pierce the center where a pool of blue water highlighted by white held the reactor itself. I imagined this to be a spanning ground for a cocoon, possibly the birthing of a black hole butterfly. And thus my opus had a concept. The sounds represent the birthing on a molecular level, a white chrysalis in blue.-James P. Keeler, September 2001. ........................................................................... WILT (James P. Keeler's main musical vehicle) is a name currently on everybody's lips in the field of experimental/dark ambient noise... From project to project, sound sources may vary greatly, moulded by a concept or a prevailing mood, but there's always some common denominator & unique stamp. For MYSTERY SEA, WILT has dived into its quietest realms so far, offering a textured snaking audio-exploration of low submerged plateaux, a flow of muffled clanks and ghostly resonances... .white chrysalis in blue. is the soundtrack to a desolate laguna under an orange pale light, a dark pool of decomposed thoughts bathed with silvery-moon reflections, a path to oblivion... along this rolling , breathing shapeless sea & deep below, .white chrysalis in blue. unfurls revealing subtle minimal evolving tones, composing the colours of a solemn drowned dream... (AVAILABLE : April 19) MS 04 EA "öL" ........................................................................... PRESS RELEASE LATER. (available sometime late May 2002) ! image displayed is not the actual artwork !

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