More mixological strategy within the realm of . . . Ether-Jazz:

A blending of 7 new TONUS releases – all sequentially layered atop a segmented edit of Antoine Beuger’s composition ‘Now Is The Moment To Learn Hope‘ – performed with:
The Extraction Ensemble:
Loren Chasse : bell
Brandon Conway : classical guitar
Sage Fisher : harp
Matt Hannafin : bowed crotale
Branic Howard : bowed guitar &
Evan Spacht : alto trombone

The various compositions serve as building blocks for the final output; and are each themselves sparse enough so as to not overshadow the others.
We’ve utilized this mix-method, entitled #blackboxsound, only once before; using Steve Roach’s Mist of Perception with several tracks from Chris Russell’s Portal sitting atop the Roach composition (see ‘Holonic‘)

TONUS has assembled a highly diversified & experimental sub-genre; pioneering a free-form, improvisational musical technique – & has instilled within us the urge to further experiment with the compositions & their strategic placement atop/alongside one another. This in an attempt to achieve an “interesting, yet ignorable” (Eno) compositional quality to the final project output.

The Audacity Wave-table looks like this:

A Blueprint for Ether-Jazz

Base:
ANTOINE BEUGER – Now Is The Moment To Learn Hope
(stretched from 47:13 to 52:36 via re-seguing the ending on top of itself)

w/Tracks:

  1. ANTOINE BEUGER – DANTE BOON — Of What is Yet to Be
  2. ASMUS TIETCHENS & DIRK SERRIES – Air Concertina
  3. BENEDICT TAYLOR & ANTON MOBIN – Slicing Ups
  4. SERRIES-VANDERSTRAETEN-VERHOEVEN – Impetus
  5. TONUS – Segment Tones
  6. DANIEL THOMPSON & COLIN WEBSTER – BOSKAGE II
  7. TONUS – Modulation Grid I (to fade)

59:06

(44’s simply a randomly assigned number . . .)