{"id":10837,"date":"2021-09-21T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T08:18:42","slug":"new-release-david-lee-myerss-reduced-to-a-geometrical-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10837","title":{"rendered":"New release: David Lee Myers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reduced to a Geometrical Point\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not an advocate of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153music for meditation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and in fact believe that to be a completely misguided notion. However, I have observed that some audio constructions seem to encourage a posture of staying in the moment. This has proven to be a fascination over time. As I began the present sonic explorations, a quote from metaphysics scholar Frithjof Schuon kept coming to mind: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You must detach your life from an awareness of the multiple and reduce it to a geometrical point before God.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Certainly, Schuon was not referring to any particular Judeo-Christian vision of a supreme being, but rather, whatever ultimate creative force of the universe which must exist. So becoming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reduced to a geometrical point before God\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was a concept that resonated for me while working on the pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, as the tracks developed I, as usual, gave them temporary working titles, in this case, Geo 1, etc. After a time I suddenly realized that the designation Geo implied a reference to our Earth and that this could suggest an additional meaning to the music. There is this geometrical point, but also the greater context of the world at large. Could these sounds remind one of the microcosmos and macrocosmos simultaneously? I hope not a pretentious assertion. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d DLM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. GEO 1 Laurentia (17:24)<\/li>
  2. GEO 2 Pannotia (12:04)<\/li>
  3. GEO 3 Gondwana (14:22)<\/li>
  4. GEO 4 Pangaea (16:15)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Feedback matrices, oscillator banks, and multi-processing by David Lee Myers.\u00c2\u00a0Recorded at Pulsewidth NYC, 2020\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2021 and mastered at Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica. Artwork by DLM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    David Lee Myers is a sound and visual artist living in New York City. He has had over thirty recordings released under his own name and also as Arcane Device by Starkland, Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica, Generator, ReR, Line, Silent, Pogus, RRRecords, Staalplaat, Monochrome Vision, and many other labels. Collaborations have been produced with Gen Ken Montgomery, Thomas Dimuzio, Ellen Band, guitarist Marco Oppedisano, and Dirk Serries (VidnaObmana). Two Albums were created with legendary electronic pioneer Tod Dockstader, and with Hamburg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s master sound manipulator Asmus Tietchens five projects have been released. Myers has performed his sounds and visuals at New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Generator, The Kitchen, Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, Knitting Factory, Clocktower, MoMA\/PS1, Outpost Artists Resources, Trans Pecos and Silent Barn, as well as the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Boston Museum of Modern art, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n