For this mix I aimed to create a dreamlike and timeless atmosphere - dark (but not too dark). It is calm, yet there are many shifting scenes, many passing landscapes and some conflicting emotions... When it ends, (I hope) it feels as if it was much longer than it actually was ...
Like with most previous mixes, I didn't know where this new one would head to when I started.But I knew I wanted to include one tiny fragment of the sound of a 'brain seizure set to music' by Stanford scientists Chris Chafe and Josef Parvizi. In a fascinating contrast to what it actually represents, the musical sound they chose to represent the brain seizure sounded like tiny aliens in a retro-scifi movie to me.
In "Hypnogogmatist", David Toop further investigates the tricks your mind can play - especially in the few seconds between feeling drowsy and falling asleep:"In the dream, I was at my mothers' house, my childhood home.All the rooms were full of sleeping people.I seemed to be suffering some process of disintegration, as if my psyche was breaking down to different timeframes, losing its coherence and unity.There was a presence in the house..."
The fantastic artwork is by Greg Dunn, who is combining neuroscience with minimalist Japanese Sumo-E style painting to create his "Neuron Art"."Neurons (the cells that comprise your brain) may be tiny in scale, but they possess the same beauty seen in traditional forms of the medium (trees, flowers, and animals)"
So I guess that there ís something of a theme for this mix.The rest is up to you.
"Synaptic Research" was mixed especially for Headphone Commute, and is especially dedicated to incredible amount of energy and work H_C does there to keep us informed and updated.Thanks for that, H_C - and of course also for publishing this mix on your blog!
Playlist[start] [length] [Artist] - [Title][Album], [Year], [Label#]
00:00 02:28 Alvin Lucier - Elegy for Albert AnastasiaVespers and other Early Works, 2002, New World Records 80604-201:26 02:03 Teho Teardo - Several Tree Huggers Were Found DeadFaith in a Wet Season, 2012, Voxxov Records VOXFCD0202:41 01:43 Threethings - ArkhangelskSequence 7, 2013, Future Sequence SEQ00703:50 01:58 Kane Ikin - Slipping Away...And Darkness Came, 2012, Headphone Commute HCD00105:23 01:20 Ekkehard Ehlers - Woolf PhraseMusic for William Forsythe, 2002, Whatness 00505:32 02:35 Philippe Lamy - Trying to tell a StoryStorytelling, 2012, Audio Gourmet Netlabel AGN06107:14 01:30 Christina Vantzou - Moonsound (Ernest Gibson Remix)No. 1 Remixes, 2011, Self-released08:27 03:00 Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Microon IIISummvs, 2011, Raster-Noton r-n 13209:41 - 02:18 Jlu - Noise100 Years of Noise, 2013, Enough Records enrcmp1910:04 04:15 Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya 3Novaya Zemlya, 2012, Thouch TO:8512:28 03:53 Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - Voice of Earth (edit)Nasa Voyager Space Recordings, 1992, Brain/Mind Research14:17 00:52 Chris Chafe - Josef Parvizi - Stanford Scientists turn seizures into music14:36 01:53 Arve Henriksen - Magma OscillatorChron, 2012, Rune Grammofon RLP 2152Y15:20 02:05 Heitor Alvelos - Untitled....49 Years from Gesang der Jünglinge, 2005, Sirr 002016:40 02:06 David Toop - HypnogogmatistMelatonin: Meditations on Sound in Sleep, 2004, Room40 EDRM40218:43 02:42 Arturs Maskats - Da Ispravitsja Molitva MojaOn Photography, 2005, GB Records BCGBCD0720:48 02:35 Murcof - PlantAntibothis vol 4, 2012, Thisco thisk.07221:29 05:45 Eyvind Kang - Petrified WoodAir Texture volume III, 2013, Air Texture AIR00325:00 06:37 Biosphere - SuperfluidCompilation 1991 - 2004, 2012, Biophon Records BIO7D28:20 02:19 The New Honey Shade - 2013.02.043M33S, 2013, Bandcamp30:40 01:09 Mark Tamea - The LakeAtomism, 2013, Awal EQ:RA 00231:37 01:30 Atom TM - Streuung - Teil IVWinterreise, 2011, self-released32:04 02:12 Seetyca - Der Atem Des ThieresIm Traum, 2005, Dark Winter dw01633:17 01:06 Coil + Nine Inch Nails - Eraser (Reduction)Recoiled, 2014, Cold Spring CSR193CD33:48 02:08 Sergio Sorrentino, Machinefabriek - Buco Nero (Zwart Gat)Vignettes, 2013, Fratto 9 Under the Sky Records fratto02434:35 02:01 Pleq - The Early Symptoms of SchizophreniaIt's not Boring, It's Ambient, 2012, Preserved Sound 35:45 03:03 John Kannenberg - Echoes of the PharosMeditations on Light (Reconstructions, 2011, Monochrome Visions, MV3536:34 02:28 Benoit Pioulard - If I Could Possibly Tell The Difference, I Wouldn't Care AnywayAir Texture Vol. II, 2012, Air Texture AIR00238:23 01:35 Dakhabrakha - YagudkyYagudky, 2007, self-released39:21 01:00 Felipe Otondo - TeocalliTutuguri, 2013, Sargasso SCD2807040:06 02:33 Penjaga Insaf - Perang DamaiTo Whom it May Concern, 2005, Shortwave Transmission SWT0141:48 02:27 Lustmord - Y GairThe Word as Power, 2013, Blackest Ever Black BlackestCD00443:15 02:44 Kreng - NimmermeerL'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu, 2009, Miasmah MIACD010 45:27 02:46 Loren Nerell - Slow DreamSlow Dream, 2012, Projekt PRO27146:27 05:36 Mendel Kaelen - SatoriRemembering What Was Forgotten, 2010, Self Released SR00150:27 02:08 Bass Communion - Grammatic FogBass Communion III, 2001, Burning Shed 51:45 01:39 Brady Allard - Vernichtung, Pt. 2Anamnesis, 2012, self-released/Bandcamp52:47 02:47 Kim Cascone - The Silver StarThe Astrum Argentum, 2007, Musica Excentrica exc00954:16 05:43 Janek Schaefer - Radio 112 FMLay-By Lullabye, 2014, 12k 12k107955:03 01:51 Frances White - Centre Bridge (Dark River)Electroacoustic Works, 2007, Mode 18455:24 03:03 Jamie Drouin - A Three Month Warm UpA Three Month Warm Up, 2009, Dragon's Eye Recording de 502358:27 01:32 Frances White - Centre Bridge (Dark River)Electroacoustic Works, 2007, Mode 1841:00:00 EndDownload Synaptic Research now 137Mb (60:00 min.)[Alternative download from Archive.org]
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