Robert Rich — Perpetual. A Somnium Continuum (8h Complete Masterpiece) [2014]
Опубликовано: 29 окт. 2014 г.A Somnium Continuum
The Sleep Concert has been one of the dominant threads in my musical journey through life. It marked my first solo concert ever, in January 1982, in the lounge of a Stanford University dormitory. It became a sort of trademark for me, even as I explored a range of dynamic music throughout my career.
Occasionally I feel an urge to return to this slow-motion core of my creative heart, and occasionally the world comes back to remind me that I will always be connected to sonic explorations at the edges of perception, trance consciousness, dreams, altered states, communal ritual.
I returned to making all-night music when the Unsound Festival invited me to perform a sleep concert in Krakow Poland, October 2013. This would be my first sleep concert in ten years. I decided to create new textural soundscapes to use in this performance, to reinvigorate the concept for a new generation, a new millennium. After spending at least six months developing long evolving textures for the performance in Krakow, I proceeded to hone the material into a new long-form work, a sequel to the 7-hour long Somnium from 2001.
Technical note: The Blu-ray version of «Perpetual» contains both the 8-hour «Perpetual» and the 7-hour original «Somnium.» Each is divided into three chapters, split at the most quiet moments in each piece, in order to keep file sizes under 4 Gb. The audio files are stereo 16 bit 48 kHz, using over 13 Gb of the disc for audio. The remaining 11 Gb holds highly compressed video-black, required for navigation through the disc. The download of «Perpetual» available through CD Baby is divided into ~80 minute chunks (for technical reasons due to data-entry workflow) and uses CD-resolution (16 bit 44.1 kHz) files. These should segue into each other seamlessly on your computer, although a soft click might be audible depending on the software.
Опубликовано: 13 февр. 2014 г.Track 9/12, from Night Falls (Hymen Records ¥767).
Magnetism sounds for me like the last transition before the denouement of Night Falls.
It starts with the static we heard in the end of Giants, representing the passage between the world of the Ancient, out of limits, and your own spiritual way, where you belong. And then, progressively, extended layers of orchestrations succeed each other, such unseizable monoliths of sound answering to each other in long moans.
These parts are supported by dense drones in the background, picturing overall a path of trial, as much physical as mental.
It's hard to breathe, bright lights and deep darkness are alternating, a stellar wind flogs your face. But above all, your memories pass before your eyes all at once, overloading your mind, while the questions asked by the Giants keep repeating themselves: «Are you worth of it? ».
The insurmountable walls of sound seem to slowly fade out in the end of the track, clearing a way to a warmer area; it looks like you are almost getting to the end of your trip.
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Опубликовано: 15 мая 2015 г.Andrew Weatherall on Groovetech Radio
Haywire Sessions radio show presenting the Rotters Golf Club
Andrew Weatherall is a famed DJ, producer and remixer, who has worked in and shown enthusiasm for a wide variety of genres. Previously ran Sabres Of Paradise and Emissions Audio Output.
These sets were were originally streamed in real media in the early days of online streaming radio. Unfortunately, you'll have to excuse the poor quality.
*Unfortunately, the video portion of the original RM file was corrupted. I was only ever able to recover the audio. The set remains amazing. Don't miss out.
