Dragon’s Eye Recordings is proud to present the debut full-length release Nest of Iterations by Oakland, CA based sound artist Lissom. Nest of Iterations is a dense, and slowly evolving sonic topography comprised of layers of repetition and recursion. Working with a varied pallet of source recordings, from field, to acoustic, and purely synthesized, Lissom builds a delicate yet substantial structure from the micro to macro level by successively repeating patterns, processes, and forms. These common threads are laced together to envelope the listener, pulling them into a space that reflects the complex and contradictory existence we inhabit: intricate, oppressive, isolated, encompassing, peaceful, chaotic, dissonant, and harmonious.
Lissom
Nest of Iterations
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- Duration:
- 50:34
- Format:
- CD-R, Streaming
- Edition:
- 250 (out of print)
- Release Date:
- March 1, 2009
- Cover:
Tana Sprague
- Track Listing:
- Fallow
- Forage
- Bask
- Downpour
- Billow
- Stark
- Refract
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
About The Artist:
Lissom
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Best of Lists
December 31, 2009
December 31, 2009
Dale Lloyd/ and/Oar & Headphone Commute.
Dronea, Dronea
October 18, 2009
October 18, 2009
It is more precisely seven tracks of discrete micro environments of sound infused with far reaching conceptual frameworks of musical and computational theory and practice.
dMute
October 15, 2009
October 15, 2009
Nest of Iterations est un album d’ambient ambitieux et très travaillé
Temporary Fault
June 29, 2009
June 29, 2009
[Lissom] designs mesmerizing soundscapes consisting of faraway ins and outs, cyclic appearances, electronic transformations of alien melodies and environmental droning, the whole sounding like the breathing of life in between the worst kind of internal turmoil.
Cyclic Defrost Magazine
June 23, 2009
June 23, 2009
In the use of organic forms here we can note that the digital programs/programming utalised in the production follows an organic growth, in that it builds on foundational knowledge, overlaid by incremental advances.
Igloo Magazine
May 13, 2009
May 13, 2009
The result is a stratified space the listener can navigate, customizing focus from centre to periphery, macro to micro.
XLR8R
April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009
While the term “ambient” may conjure notions of laptop wankery and songs that could only vaguely be described as musical, …
Smallfish
April 15, 2009
April 15, 2009
Lissom’s Nest Of Iterations is really quite simply a fantastic release. Taking the form of a series of scuplted, textured …
Headphone Commute
April 3, 2009
April 3, 2009
Descending down a steep slope, I slowly enter a cavern populated with dripping stalactites, swinging wind chimes, and wondering whispers. …
Textura
April 1, 2009
April 1, 2009
Dragon Eye’s latest addition to its “sound art” catalogue comes by way of Oakland, California-based Lissom, in “real life” Tana …
Loop
March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009
Tana Sprague aka Lissom is an Oakland, California based sound and video artist. She has Master of Fine Arts degree …
White_Line
March 17, 2009
March 17, 2009
This debut from Lissom (Multi-Media artist, Tana Sprague) is one of those recordings that actively resists any one convenient tag …
Sound Proector
March 15, 2009
March 15, 2009
These textures stream along the walls as dense, thick current so as if they were liquid.