The Knotted Constellation

The Knotted Constellation (Fourteeen Rotted Coordinates) by Kim Cascone from Monotype Records, released July 2011, arrived at the Reading Room courtesy of Kim Cascone.

 

 

“The Knotted Constellation is a cinematic sound narrative that moves the listener through a series of auditory fields. Each field is separated with ‘digital black’ thereby framing or bracketing the ‘rotted coordinates’ — each one a point on a decayed map of a dystopian sound-scape.

This release is an admixture of field recordings from around the world, surreal collage techniques and synthetic sounds derived from digital audio tools ‘The Knotted Constellation’ allows the listener to lose themselves in the territory and not merely the map of their darkest imagination.

With contributions by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Lithuanian sound artist Darius Čiuta and Berlin-based circuit bender Guido Henneböhl among others.” [via]

 

 

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Consider also:

  1. The Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magick, Music and Ritual 1
  2. “often caves are, he says, symbols of ‘all invisible power; because as caves are obscure and dark, so the essence of all these powers is occult,’ and quotes a lost hymn to Apollo to prove that nymphs living in caves fed men ‘from intellectual fountains’; and he contends that fountains and rivers symbolize generation, and that the word nymph ‘is commonly applied to all souls descending into generation,’ and that the two gates of Homer’s cave are the gate of generation and the gate of ascent through death to the gods, the gate of cold and moisture, and the gate of heat and fire.”
  3. Translucent Grows
  4. In Nomine Babalon, IL
  5. Fields of Light – Lumen Siccum