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  • This is the second release in a new 10-disc series of quiet experimental music on the Susurrus label from Berkeley, CA, USA. Releases in this series explore sometimes-very-gentle abstract sound, feedback, noise, system-music, field recordings and raw electronics. Susurrus is a whispering, rustling sound.
  
  
  • "Mount Larsen is a record of feedback music, recorded live on a large film scoring stage. Electronic and acoustic sounds were used to 'excite' the room, whose natural reverb decay is over 4 seconds; these sounds were picked up by an array of 10 microphones which were fed to a small mixing console and then back out to large speakers in the room, the sounds from which were in turn picked up by the original microphones, creating an acoustic feedback loop of rich and evolving tones.
  
  The performance of the pieces involved mixing the sounds back into the room live, bringing the system to the edge of collapse, then carving away energy to create hollows of near-silence. The object was music with a wide dynamic range between billowing waves of heavy sound and very, very quiet lingering filaments of clear feedback, all the while respecting the geometric volume and open space of the environment in which it was created.
  
  Much of modern music is created within no physical space; for Mount Larsen, I aimed to make the room acoustics integral to the music itself, as it was in days past. The result is both loud and quiet, energetic and relaxing, complicated and simple and pure.
  
  The title of the album is a punning portmanteau of Mount Lassen, an active volcano in Northern California, and the name of Søren Larsen, the Danish scientist who discovered the principles of acoustic feedback. The volcano seemed a fitting metaphor for the long stases, then building and bursting of energy exhibited in this
  type of music." -kS
  
  
  • "Mount Larsen" is a replicated, screen-printed CD in a bespoke, square-format, color-printed sleeve and slipcover (album-style). First pressing of 300 copies.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Mount Larsen via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
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