Turning In, Vol. 11

by Nadja Lind, aka, Aashya

 

Every single ‘Turning In Ambient Drone’ wave is designed to gently guide you into states of deep relaxation, emotional release and inner peace, achieved through underlying binaural frequencies – frequencies designed to physically stimulate both hemispheres of the human brain which is being used to help with the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
This helps your body to naturally release its own destressing hormones, allowing you to breathe deeper, help your physical and spiritual body to rebalance and to recover quickly from the rigours of everyday life.

Track No. 1 – Shambhavi Four Hertz Binaural: Length 40:01 min. 4Hz binaural frequency (Delta) thoroughly.
Delta waves: Deep, dreamless, restorative sleep. Sleep has its own stages and associated brainwave patterns and more than simply the absence of being awake..

Track No. 2 – What is Time Five Hertz Binaural: Length 44:44 min. 5Hz binaural frequency (Low Theta) thoroughly
Theta waves: Meditation, deep relaxation, daydreaming, creativity.

Track No. 3 – Purry Friend Five Hertz Binaural: Length 33:33 min. 5Hz binaural frequency (Low Theta) thoroughly
Theta waves: Meditation, deep relaxation, daydreaming, creativity.

Track No. 4 – Shambhavi Nine Hertz Binaural: Length 40:01 min. 9Hz binaural frequency (Low Alpha) thoroughly.
Alpha waves: Relaxed wakefulness, light meditation. Connection between consciousness and unconsciousness.

Track No. 5 – What is Time Twenty-Two to Two Hertz: Length 44:44 min. Gently and steadily guides you from 22Hz binaural frequency (Beta) to 2Hz binaural (Delta) and from minute 22 onwards 2Hz binaural (Delta)
Beta waves: Physically active and mentally alert, waking day state.
Alpha waves: Relaxed wakefulness, light meditation. Connection between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Delta waves: Deep, dreamless, restorative sleep. Sleep has its own stages and associated brainwave patterns and more than simply the absence of being awake.

How to use the binaural tracks most efficiently:
1. use (noise-cancelling) headphones (the binaural frequencies are produced by your brain through aural stimulation of hemispheres through slightly different frequencies on your left and right ear

2. check towards the middle of the track if the volume is comfortable since the tracks are being faded int. Note that after some minutes the perception of sound might get more intense since usually our brains adapt to the environmental noise pollution.

3. ideal is if you can lay down and cover yourself with a blanket. Note that after lying still for some minutes your heart-rate and body temperature lowers.

4. it is vital for the recovery & energy charge process to be completed. So please make sure you will not get interrupted during your listening cycle. – enable e.g. flight mode on your phone
– make sure nobody will knock on your door for 22min
– if applicable use noise cancelling headphones to protect yourself from outside noises

5. put on a blindfold or darken the room. The listening experience will be much more effective the less distractions through other senses/sensations.

6. the drones are designed to keep you right at the edge between a state of being awake and sleep. If you nevertheless fall asleep the drones get more intense towards the end to gently wake you up.

How does each binaural Turning In Binaural Drone soundscape help do this? They assist you by:
● deepening your breathing
● relaxing your body and mind
● stabilizing your immune system
● easing your brain and nervous system
● energizing your body after training, at work or during breaks
● increasing creativity
● deepening & enhancing your yoga/meditation practice
● releasing fatigue
● focusing your thoughts
● helping you tap into your inner joy
● getting you closer to your inner self
● enhancing your capacity to study and learn

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Another Mix . . .

A non-piano specific (but mostly piano) mix;
blending ambient, electronica & a dash of ECM Jazz
(with, uhm, a treatment/wash or 2) . 81:42

01 Alaskan Tapes – We All Speak in Poems
02 Markus Reuter – Lurk
03 Julio Di Benedetto – Original Light
04 Markus Reuter & Sha – 0103 (excerpt)
05 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Iano
06 Ben Monder – Dinosaur Skies
07 Dirk Serries – Epiphany & Isolation
08 A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Prologue, Iris
09 Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang & Tigran Hamasyan – Shushiki
10 Erik K Skodvin – Shining, Burning
11 A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Comme on a Dit
12 Tangent – Dissolution
13 Okada – Shredded Remains of Hope (excerpt)
14 Ambient Landscape – Ghost edit segue
15 Edward Carlsen – Far (Bruno Sanfilippo rework)
16 Pepo Galán – Human Values Disappear

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f l u i d

f l u i d | ambient/experimental | 80:06

Fluid structure tables within an ambient laminate; a bit of causticity, glitch & some experimental after-burner.

Armed with naught but a pair of digital scissors (& a small pot of glue), I hacked away at the looming stack of potential audiological deliverables until I liked what I was hearing . .

. . . and hope you will too.

[apologies to any artists, listed herein, who feel their composition was butchered, maligned or transmorgrified in any way, shape or fashion . . . it’s, uhm . . . just how I roll]

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01 Robert Curgenven – Eclipse (plasticine porter echo edit)
. . .[containing a reversed echoed version of the same track]
02 Moss Covered Technology – Sea #4 (excerpt)
03 Chris Russell with Mystified – Reflections in Transit (edit)
04 Dirk Serries – Brittle Air Elegy
05 Saul Stokes – Drop by Drop (evaporated leche edit)
06 Porya Hatami & Arovane – Mii
07 Steve Roach – Expanding Again
08 The Green Kingdom – Bathypelagic Zone
09 Robert Rich – Curtain (excerpt)
10 Ten – AE & VZ
11 OffTheSky – Gust.Form (excerpt)
12 Si Begg – Location 4
13 Andrea Belfi – Spitting & Skytouching
14 Brian Eno w/ Rick Holland – Fierce Aisles of Light
15 Arovane & Porya Hatami – Mata Evolve
16 Pascal Savy – Ghost Echoes

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Seven, by Peter James

This collection of tracks are, if you like, an homage to the time I spent in Cumbria, and it’s countryside. each one inspired in some way by where i lived, and the places i visited, and came to love, and where i found some peace within them. all were recorded between 2010 and 2012. the artwork, and the extra photograph’s were all taken on my last visit to Loweswater, towards the end of 2012. it was a place i spent countless hours at, or around and above, over the years, so it seemed kind of fitting to use them for this set of works – and even if they do span over 2 years, they are all intrinsically linked by one single factor – Cumbria.
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Released March 16, 2013
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All field recordings, sounds, music, production and mastering, by peter james.
Artwork and photography: peter james
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s-c-r-a-p (techno)

Short…& to the point; beginning with a low growl & finishing in the fast-lane; I utilize techno mixes primarily for my workout regimen: specifically Nordic Track workouts & upper body weight/calisthenics – both using my Dr. Dre wireless Powerbeats.

diggit! | 64:50

01 Dirk Serries – Torrential Aether Shadows (excerpt)
01 Lucy – The Horror
02 Speedy J – Manhasset
03 Pact Infernal – Sapere Aude
04 Lemna – Knot
05 Kangding Ray – Epsilon
06 Photek – Infinity
07 David Bowie – Law (Earthlings On Fire)
08 Shifted – She Dressed In Grey (Static Mix)
09 Visible Silence – Into the Deep
10 Joachim Spieth – Annihilatio
11 Von Grall – Hyper Density

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s l i p s t r e a m _ 2018

Old & new converge to once again ford the ever meandering, ambient stream…the slipstream. This series, crafted from 2006 through 2009, makes me reflect upon the entire ambient genre. Every musical category has, for me (and probably others as well), a “sweet spot” – that is to say, a favorite period of time when, in the listener’s opinion, the genre was at its height. For me, ambient music hit its peak from approximately 1995/1997 to 2010/2012:

Albums like Smile on the Void (A Produce) 2001, The Equatorial Stars (Brian Eno & Robert Fripp) 2005, Sanctuary of Dreams (Numina) 2004, Perihelion (Viridian Sun) 1999, Strata (Steve Roach & Robert Rich) O.K., that’s from 1990, Lanterna (Henry Frayne) 1995, Electric Ladder (Robert Rich) 2005, The Wine of Silence (Robert Fripp) 2012 and a perennial favorite Seofon’s Zero Point (2001) – all shaped my love for the genre as well as helped me hone my mix-craft.

And, coincidentally, this edition (with its punched-up cover art drafting off the original series with a color tweak) is just in time for my town’s annual ‘slipstream’ parade (and the ONLY American town, btw, still paying tribute to the ambient mix series that, ahem…put it on the map) ;- D

Please march (and enjoy) responsibly . . . 89:00

01 Michel Banabila – Dissolve (excerpt)
02 Ambient Landscape – Holonic (excerpt)
03 Robert Henke – Signal to Noise, pt 2
04 Brian Eno – Shadow
05 Michael Trommer – Some Sparkled Horizon
___(sampling Location 1, by Si Begg)
06 Michael Meara – By Shadowed Cliffs
07 High Plains – The Dusk Pines
08 Robert Rich – Beyond, pt 5
09 Marsen Jules – Lazy Sunday funerals
10 O Yuki Conjugate – Out Through The Skin
11 Fern – Zerinnung
12 The Circular Ruins/Off the Sky – Hide & Seek
13 Benoît Pioulard – Florid (Loscil Remix)
14 dreamSTATE – Sunspot Interference
15 The Circular Ruins – Adrift
16 Jeff Greinke – Orographic

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Installation Music Mix

Brian Eno will release ‘‘Music For Installations” on May 4th.

In commemoration of that, our studio engineers have crafted for me a personal mix (residing on my phone & iPad) which is perfect for computing, writing, contemplating, cleaning firearms, reading the U.S. Constitution, heterosexual love-making, napping, dithering and/or staring out windows — utilizing several fine atmospheres from Mr. Eno’s v-a-s-t ambient collection.

This simply condenses several long-form pieces into something easily managed & looped if a longer listening session is required.

34:18

1. Kazakhstan (excerpt)
2. Reflection (excerpt)
3. LUX (excerpt)
4. Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 5
5. Music for Installations/Kazakhstan (fade-in excerpt II)
6. Left Where it Fell (excerpt)

Awase, by Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

Looking forward to the 5.04.18 release of this . . .
#MoreRonin!
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‘Awase‘, a term from martial arts, means “moving together” in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bartsch’s Ronin.

Six years have passed since the last release from the Swiss group (though Nik Bartsch did release ‘Continuum’ with his group Mobile on ECM in 2016). In the interim, trimmed from quintet to quartet size and with new bassist Thomy Jordi fully integrated, Ronin has become a subtly different band.

The pianist/composer speaks of a new-found freedom and flexibility in the approach to the material, with “greater transparency, more interaction, more joy in every performance”. The freedom here extends to revisiting early Bartsch modules alongside new compositions including, for the first time on a Ronin record, a piece by reedman Sha.

After “Modul 60,” the reflective and tranquil opener to Awase, from pianist Nik Bärtsch’s groove-metric quartet Ronin, “Modul 58” comes at you with such an insistence and power that it leaves you, after its persistent eighteen minutes, catching your breath, marveling at how you went from zero to mach 10 in the blink of an eye.

Bärtsch describes the music of Ronin as “Zen Funk” or “Ritual Groove Music” and, as evidenced on previous thrillers including 2002’s Randori (Ronin Rhythm Records), ’08’s Holon (ECM Records), and ’12’s Ronin Live (ECM), the keyboardist’s in no way pulling our legs or playing with our heads.

Play with our heads the music does, though, in a dizzying, grand way, employing simple patterns unconcerned with downbeats or expectations and mantra-like modules (or “Moduls,” as Bärtsch chooses to title his works) of sheer minimalist groove that expand, contract and expand again at the whim and will of both composer and players.

Positioned, as it is, after the maelstrom of “Modul 58, Sha’s “A,” is a languid, darkly hypnotic work, its theme offered up repetitively as the band interprets each go ’round in shifting, intrinsic ways. “A” also serves as an oasis from the growing dance of “Modul 36,” a flowing, firing-on-all-cylinders rave that, if you weren’t familiar with the vision of Ronin, you might suspect was out of reach for this brainy quartet.

Ditto “Modul 34,” with Rast holding a hard rock ‘n’ roll center as Bärtsch goes unhinged. It is a tune that blends rock and jazz with a stunning ease seldom found since the fusion heyday of the mid-’70s. “Modul 59,” after the fashion of the opener, takes us out quietly, with Bärtsch and company knowing full well that we need the time to recover from the rush.
~All About Jazz

Awase was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France in October 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher. It is released on CD and on a double LP (180g vinyl) with a free download code.

Personnel:
Nik Bartsch (piano)
Sha (bass clarinet, alto saxophone)
Thomy Jordi (bass)
Kaspar Rast (drums)

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Ambient | 83:42

Some favorite tracks from ambient days gone by, yet right in step with
the recent Markus Guenter composition.

The cover art started out as a photo of a flock of Canadian Geese flying south . . .

01 Brian Eno – Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960
02 Numina – Lost on Silica Ridge
03 Robert Fripp – Requiem; Affirming
04 The Winterhouse – Winterhouse
05 Michael Whalen – The Heart Of Midnight
06 Lammergeyer – Against the Shore
07 Kirk Watson – Scarecrow
08 Vir Unis – A Mysterious Subatomic Fragment
09 Markus Guenter – Cavus
10 Saul Stokes – Thick Streets
11 Igneous Flame – The Language of Rocks
12 David Helping – Moon Dreaming Thunder
13 Robert Rich – Sky Tunnel

Climata, by Robert Curgenven

‘Climata‘ is a new [actually 2016] work by composer and sound artist Robert Curgenven comprised entirely of site-specific recordings captured in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces, spanning 9 countries. Each of the individual recordings, with their quiet & slowly changing microtonal interventions made in-situ, interrogate and offer a specific document of weather, location and duration framed by the architecture of the Skyspace – a frame that blurs the distinction between interiority and exteriority – while allowing the physicality of the Skyspace to be subtly rendered audible.

Turrell’s Skyspaces are a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky and outside world. The Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. The aperture can be round, ovular or square – each with its’ own “piece of sky” beneath an ocean of air. These variously shaped apertures let in and frame not only Turrell’s famous light but also sound and its medium, in this case air.

The initial tones you will notice are a by-product of the recording process in the Skyspaces, a technique which brings the air inside the Skyspace into movement against the air outside – oscillating through the ceiling aperture, creating a soft phasing sound, like a whooshing or fluttering where the listener can hear the air move – this sound is about as loud as the sound outside the Skyspace.

The two discs that make up ‘Climata’ were created to be played back to back or simultaneously, in any order and ideally on two sound systems. Together the two 58 minute CDs give rise to hours of unique combinations.

An installation version of Climata was exhibited in the National Gallery of Australia’s Skyspace in 2015 with more site-specific iterations to follow in 2016.
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Released April 29, 2016

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