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Meditations​/​Dances in Etheric Fields

by Vax

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Meditation 1 13:44
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Meditation 2 09:35
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Meditation 3 21:26
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Chant 12:19
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Sonic meditations, some of them droney and minimalist, others more overlaid and textured, with a general intent of being awake and aware while wandering the Tarkovskian Zone. Or something like that.

(I'm not sure when I first saw Tarkovsky's "Stalker"--it may have been later--but when I did I knew I had dreamed something very much like it long before. I describe my take on "Stalker" in the first chapter of my book "Ecologies of the Moving Image.")

The album features synthesizers on all tracks except #1 (which is mostly various forms of guitar), with electric guitars on tracks 1 and 5, flute on 1 and 2, voice on "Chant," and maybe one or two other things. Recorded sometime in the late 1980s, these pieces were never issued publicly until now. (I'm still not sure if they should be. The last one is a throwaway piece--too noodly--but consider it a bonus track.)

Note: The order of these was rearranged slightly in July, 2019, from the original order that appeared here.

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released July 9, 2019

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Adrian Ivakhiv / vax Burlington, Vermont

Adrian Ivakhiv (eev-ahkh-eev) has worked in multiple genres including electroacoustic, chamber, choral, avant-rock, free improv, ambient, and experimental composition. He has made electronic music under the alias "vax" (pronounced "vah(kh)") since the 1980s, and conducted the St. Nicholas Choir in Toronto from 1987 to 2000. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. More info at blog (first link below). ... more

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