jgrzinich – time’s arrow landing

maaheli editions 02, web release (1998/2009)

Tracks:

1. ignition (10:42) 10:42, 21.1mb mp3
2. cooling the legions (17:00) 17:00, 32.8mb mp3
3. what is written in the clouds (12:35) 12:35, 24.6mb mp3
4. hollow drain (12:27)  12:27, 24.3mb mp3

Download the full album ( 100mb zip archive )

time’s arrow landing is something of a “lost” solo project I recently dug out from my archives. Prepared originally for release on a CD label in Europe, it was completed and mastered in early 1998, before being dropped by the label. The full album is being presented here as it has rested since that time. Nothing has been changed except for some minor level adjustments and the omission of one digital error that occurred on the DAT master.

Each track is an investigation into the juxtaposition of dense acoustic noise fields and clusters of electronic pulses and tones. The electronic sounds were produced by an old military sine wave generator and were layered and processed with numerous effects pedals and signal processors. The field recordings were made at various locations around Austin, TX and were mostly left unprocessed. The equipment used was mostly rented or borrowed from friends, particularly Michael Northam.

maaheli editions is a platform for releasing personal or collaborative experimental productions of maaheli studio. These releases are not subject to any medium, schedule or plan.

jgrzinich – mimema

maaheli editions 01, web release (2007)

(this release will be offline temporarily due to pending release. please check back soon for more info)
mimema I [24:30] 34mb .mp3 | 25mb .ogg
mimema II [23:48] 32mb .mp3 | 28mb .ogg

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mimema consists of two minimal and exteneded drone pieces of electronically processed samples of organ music. mimema is intended for low volume listening

mimema is a work dedicated to the understanding of transcendence, in the personal and collective sense of our being. It is the light that imitates darkness and the reason that imitates dreams.

The night is long, but not eternal. When I was a child I used to journey into the darkness of night through metaphysical states of being. To enter the dream world or the world of the subconscious being, I used to project myself into a state of weightlessness. While lying in the middle of the bed I would concentrate and focus on the center of the earth and imagine I could feel the force of gravity. After a certain period of time the sense feeling of the body was diminished and a different sense took over. The bed would be transformed into a floating surface on which I lay in a flat position to navigate the great void of space. At first this space constituted of the three dimensional definable space we are mostly familiar with, which could be understood through the shifting plane of the bed. Over time however, this becomes a literal inversion of the cognitive process, as other “dimensions” would unfold. The new dimensions were not exponents of the initial three so much as they were leaps into a dimensionless field, a state beyond time and space. Time and space become transcendent conditions and are navigable by relative association of thought, memory and sensory energy. Much of my youth was spent in fear of the night, a fear for being alone in the unknown. I can see that this searching would help me find comfort and consolation in transforming fear into a journey, from my waking life to sleeping and back again.

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maaheli editions is a platform for releasing personal or collaborative experimental productions of maaheli studio. These releases are not subject to any medium, schedule or plan.