Breathletters explores the concept of harmonic sound as a form of pre-language emotional communication. Like unweaving words to expose the phonemes inside them, hidden details in the timbral characteristics of acoustic instruments (glockenspiel, guitar, violin, bowed electric bass, contact mics on bowed and hammered metal) are unwound, frozen and expanded. These elemental sounds are combined with binaural field recordings, and arranged intuitively into a set of nine tracks suggesting the emotional signals sent across an environment by reciprocal minds, imagined letters in the alphabet of empathy.
Sublamp
Breathletters
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- Duration:
- 39:19
- Format:
- CD-R, Digital, Streaming
- Edition:
- 250 (out of print)
- Release Date:
- July 1, 2009
- Cover:
Ryan Connor
- Track Listing:
- Echolalic
- Dust Lessons
- Pattered and Unwound
- Like Spiders on the Fox’s Tongue
- Spitting Color
- Monophoneme
- Mouseblood
- Starvation Tapes
- Glossolalic
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
- TIDAL
Press:
July 9, 2010
The nine tracks of this very nice CD show exactly that, mixing unconscious responsiveness and concentration in static soundscapes among the most satisfying I’ve stumbled upon recently, gifted with unpretentiousness and a wealth of harmonic textures despite the almost complete lack of movement or dynamic shifts.
December 31, 2009
Spiritual Archives & Daniel Crokaert (Mystery Sea/Unfathomless).
October 1, 2009
Sezionare le parole per mettere a nudo i fonemi in esse contenuti è un po’ come svelare quei dettagli nascosti …
September 1, 2009
The pieces are detailed, meditative drone settings of shape-shifting character, with clearly discernible contrasts emerging as each one appears.
August 28, 2009
…the album’s 39 minutes drift effortlessly by, and the lack of demands placed on the listener is often just what’s wanted.
August 20, 2009
Carefully chosen sounds are combined to form emotional droning sounds.
August 15, 2009
The soundscapes of Sublamp take on both intimate hues and more abstract, hollow characteristics and through growth and decay come in and out of focus.
August 10, 2009
It’s a fluid album with subtle changes of atmosphere and mood than range from airy, spacious and gentle through to more robust, lightly drone-based tracks.
August 2, 2009
This Los Angeles based artist creates a deeply listening that shape expansive landscapes.
July 1, 2009
…the piece stands well alone as an intriguing work but upon repeated listens more elements start to surface. Breathletters has many of these moments, which allow ever more discoveries upon repeated listening.