the sublimating mirror, by michael northam

the sublimating mirror

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A selection of peculiar new recordings discovered during my travels in South Asia.

I have been watching a series of the potential of ‘reality’ being a ‘simulation’ and I began to reflect on what could be a point or portal between ’simulated’ and that which would transcend the simulation, or perhaps break the simulation.

I realized that actually much of my ‘sonic compost’ work since the very beginning has been inspired to approach a state via sound that breaks patterns of association - perhaps a truly unassimulatable place. This notion is perhaps a very difficult one to express due to the fact that in our current social/cultural state - we are fixated on our paradoxical ‘subjective’ experience as well as our ‘identity crisis’ being humans existing on the planet today. There seems to be a kind of neo-confidence that people are assure themselves with. For me this rings of ‘the simulation’ - or more simply ‘the assimilation’ as our highly distracted hive mind is simply normalizing or digesting what ever comes its way into a flaccid monoculture of the lowest comment or most ‘easily’ recognizable pattern.

It is also quite startling to notice that even in ‘spiritual’ communities or other supposedly articulately sensitive and meticulous practitioners of various ilks there is a kind of group-mind which disengages discernment in lieu of adherence to social encodings. This ‘feel good’ cult-ure is what seems to dominate the global habits.

So - this collection of sonic works - which are essentially reflections of locations, situations revealed in the field recordings - but applied with a kind of filtering interlaced experiments of stochastic sonic elements - my goal is to show our capacity to hear is actually a mirror that is flaking small elements of our in-ability to hear what is ‘real’ any more - during this process of sublimation - we are shown that this mirror acts like a well (a source) of a kind of infinity. inside of which we might be able to dislodge the tendencies of ‘entertainment’ (en-trainment) and offer ourselves opportunities to rest in a ground-less state. To rest in a place where maybe the flood of simulacra can recede and maybe for once - we can begin to listen once again…

* ‘the first month of the shortest interval of time’ is an offering to Anirban and Sanyuka’s son - Nimikh (which means the shortest interval of time) - created during the first month of his life at Rainbow Farms, above Kempty, Falls in Uttarkhand, India - July 2019 - [https://youtu.be/JlWGGfaSSW0]

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released February 6, 2020

Recorded in various locations in India and Nepal between 2018-2020.

Mixed and Mastered - at Gautam and Eva’s in Kushalnagar, Karnataka 2020

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Active & published internationally, for the past two decades Michael Northam has been cultivating a personal style exploring experience through the sound. His compositions are based on alternative techniques for sound recording & mixing where improvisations on unusual electro-acoustic instruments, including self-designed ones, are interwoven with recordings from various locations around the world. ... more

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