Loscil - Alta (2023)

#ambient #drone #experimental

Tracklist:

1.Alta 00:00 - 42:07


"A 40+ minute render of ALTA, a generative music piece originally part of an audiovisual installation at the Libby Leshgold Gallery on the Emily Carr University campus in Vancouver BC, in March 2023. The installation was designed as a 4-channel piece of endless music. Presented here in stereo, it can be thought of as a long exposure capture of the otherwise continuous music from the installation.

ALTA is an addition to the ADRIFT series of generative music pieces named after abandoned sea vessels. Originally released in 2015 as a mobile application, and redesigned as a Max patch for the installation, ALTA/ADRIFT uses structured random selection, mixing and panning to weave together the sonic phrases and layers.

The MV Alta was abandoned at sea and set adrift in 2018 near Bermuda, eventually reaching the shores of Ireland in 2020 where she remains shipwrecked.

Special thanks to Vanessa Kwan, curator at the Libby Leshgold Gallery."

released May 4, 2023

#Canada #electroacoustic #meditation #minimal #sleep #synth #atmospheric​ #soundscapes​ #electronic #FLAC #lossless

[gavinmercer]

So effortless you hardly know you're listening to it

[donjennings]

New Loscil! I've been waiting for this!

[stephenlindow]

Alta begins in the atmosphere. . .a glint of mica: intelligent,
swirling breathings. Ineffably constant like a frog
buoyed up on meniscus. Or, ayahuasca. Or, as a storm
of cricket---harmless. Alta: a color blue not since since
1604. A gentle tug of gravity, a kiss of wind, a far tower. . .
scallops of sound; the sun wrenching off rust; ghosts
juicing; depths of water, depths of sky. Alta, the deep
end of the childhood pool; Ultra: radios tuned to other
universes;