I'm pleased to announce the release of my album Hollow Bodies, published by echOmusic; a septet of abstract electronic and electroacoustic incantations, both visceral and evocative, that resonate in time, space and the imagination. My best solo abstract compositions collected from over a decade of works in the spirit of Edgard Varese's Poeme Electronique, Tamas Ungvary's L'aube des flammes, and John Chowning's Turenas.

Seven tracks (including a new track written for the release) totaling 72 minutes re-mastered by fellow electronic composer, sound engineer, and good friend Themis Pantelopoulos (aka Nokalypse) to bring out an even greater depth and brilliance. Even if you've gotten an mp3 download of these tracks, you're not hearing them as big as they truly are; music felt by your body as well as your mind.

"I always put you in with Varese and crazy bastards like Bartok." - John Shirley

$9 USD outside of Europe, $7 EURO inside Europe (includes shipping). CDR labeled in a round metal tin. order from echOmusic . PayPal link is on the page. Discounts on larger orders.

HOLLOW BODIES

Transcendent Anomaly - "Anomaly appears only against the background provided by the paradigm... Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly... And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected." from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Sine Language - Originally done as part of Audiobulb's Root of Sine project; "A sine wave is waveform of a single constant frequency and amplitude that continues for all time. Since a sine wave has only a single frequency associated with it, it may be considered the simplest sound. The sine wave is the embodiment of audio-purity and strength as it presents an unchanging tonal quality." Take the single sine wav you hear at the beginning of the piece, and then see where it takes you. This is where it took me.

Falling Man - Although Morton Feldman once said, "I loathe the sound of electronic music," this piece is dedicated to him and the music he wrote. Sonic theme and variations in an extended open space.

Walking Backwards - like Cocteau's Orpheus, owl grandmother walks backwards retracing her steps into the fourth world, waking into a dream. Electronics, Tibetan singing bowl, guitar.

Sound Houses I-IV - a digital& analog feedback composition in four parts from a reference in Francis Bacon's visionary New Atlantis ... “We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances." Not bad for 1626.

Blue Star Kachina - An apocalyptic piece employing electronics, percussion, bamboo flute, and wind wands based on the Hopi prophecy of the last great war, one both material and spiritual, which will be started by peoples of the third world and which will destroy the evils of our present Fourth World. It begins when the Saquasohuh Kachina, representing an as yet unseen blue star, dances in the plaza and will usher the survivors into the Fifth World where all are brothers.

Albion - "Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - from America, A Prophecy by William Blake. Manipulation of interactive resonating circuits.

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You can preview mp3 streams of most of the tracks at either my ArtistServer page or at Brandy of the Damned


Hollow Bodies at echOmusic

ear sent, head bent. enjoy.