Messages From Beyond the Aether

by John Oliver

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1.	Sensors 01:28	buy track
2.	The Material 04:34	buy track
3.	A Warning 02:39	buy track
4.	Twin Moons Message 02:48	buy track
5.	Voices From Deep Space 04:31	buy track
6.	Far Out Dance 1 01:20	buy track
7.	Dark Star 1 03:24	buy track
8.	Far Out Dance 2 03:02	buy track
9.	Dark Star 2 01:38	buy track
10.	Far Out Dance 3 01:43	buy track
11.	Dark Star 3 05:19	buy track
12.	Far Out Dance 4 01:31	buy track
13.	Your Planet is Frying 06:54	buy track
14.	Sensors 2 04:16	buy track
15.	Further Out Dance 05:44	buy track
16.	Dark Star 4 04:12	buy track
17.	The Path to the Light 03:54	buy track

about

I improvised this music in one take, in the order that you hear. So if you want to experience the whole session in one go, just hit play and sit back to enter another dimension for an hour. Headphones or good quality speakers recommended. Although the music can be dizzying at times, I have made sure that nothing should damage your hearing, even at fairly high volume.

A completely different way to listen to the music is to randomly insert tracks into a playlist and see what happens.

I was inspired to create a multilayered work that I could "play" in realtime that would feature drones mixed with a number of other elements that suggest vocal utterances, spinning objects, overtone singing, the resonance of pipes, and so on. The various elements collide with one another in time and space.

This music is not recommended to accompany activities, such as sleep, yoga, dish-washing, dinner conversation, meditation, shopping, etc. Accompanying modern dance or a Sci-Fi film might work. Strangely, although the music is often busy on the surface, there is a paradoxical calm at the core, almost hypnotic.

The music you hear is my first encounter using the three oscillators of WOGGLEBUG by MakeNoiseMusic as sound sources, passed through other time and spectral-based modulation units in my system.

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released July 14, 2023

Music composed and performed by John Oliver © 2023 (SOCAN)
Editing, mixing, mastering by John Oliver
Cover art by Seiya Oliver
Album title was a gift from retired CBC producer David Jaeger

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John Oliver Vancouver, British Columbia

electronic and soundscape music projects, ranging from classic musique concrète, to granular synthesis, and dark ambient. My instrumental and vocal music appears on several other labels and compilations. See my web site for details.

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