Recorded, developed and performed by Coagulant
at PSSR std, north London in February 2020.
All sounds sourced from: ambisonic microphones, shortwave radio, sonic soundscapes, cut-up and feedback.
This is experimental abstract sound, and moves through the sphere of the imagination.
Not built for the eyes, but made for the eras, no landmark.
Visual concept, artworks & design by Spectral/23
Includes artwork insert.
Abstract
Rendlesham Transmitter is a work connected with
unknown states of consciousness and with the "Typhonian
experiments" inside the outer space.
Anyone conversant with the work of Kenneth Grant
cannot help but associate his name with the word “extraterrestrial".
Kenneth Grant's “Typhonian experiments” were focused
on dimensional portal openings, and communications
and transmissions with entities from another astral plane—permeated
by an alien aura, modeled and hidden within layers and levels of consciousness, and by the ritual knowledge.
The sound used in Rendlesham Transmitter is simultaneously in and
out of the bizarre—from the surreal sensuality of Austin Osman Spare
and Michael Bertiaux's visionary voodoo to the arcane
appropriation of Lovecraftian lore.
Rendlesham Transmitter is an evocation of the presence of the otherworldly, understood as astral depth, in the cosmic plane.
DMT Entities is designed as an extra-dimensional mantra and it is
part of those dark areas of extra-sub-and ultra-terrestrial encounters, essential to the essence of the extraterrestrialism of the Typhonian tradition where, without limits, the cosmic infinity and the collective unconscious mix and merge with communication with a preternatural Intelligence. The Repeating Events are a catalytic bridge for psychic experiences, the remote past is projected against the cosmic tissue into an arcane backdrop of starry space, opening cognizance of outer gateways, contact points with areas of being and non-being increasingly identified as non-human.
Fabio Kubic for Coagulant, 2/27/2020, London.
NOISE NOT MUSIC REVIEW
On Rendlesham Transmitter, UK sound art and research project Coagulant follows up their superb previous release Anamorphoses with another set of deeply immersive abstract soundscapes. The approach to sonic processing they adopt is once again pleasingly aggregate, with spacious room recordings and airflow drones melding with distant voices and clatter to create opaque, mysterious currents of sound—the elements all truly “coagulate” into something new. For me, Coagulant’s music is difficult to elucidate because it is so unavoidably holistic; just like the complex psychological processes it attempts to examine, each piece the project generates unfolds as an inseparable whole, the multitude of ingredients that constitute them always bound within a dense knot of relationships. This quality provides an explanation for why each track is able to draw so much from what is essentially stagnancy (on “DMT Entities” especially, not much changes throughout its nearly 24-minute duration, yet “boring” or “repetitive” are the absolute last words I would use to describe it); the listener spends their time constantly attempting to decipher that tangled web of inextricable relations, trying in vain to isolate each component in this congealed amalgam of auditory uncertainty. As background music, Rendlesham Transmitter is meditative, nocturnal, murky; as focused listening, it’s an impenetrable clump of sound that we’re constantly trying to break open, but all we can really do is perceive it from different angles and futilely try to convince ourselves that we have it all figured out.
Jack Davidson.
Coagulant is a conceptual sound art projects, led by Fabio Kubic.
It is connected in many areas related
to sound experimentation and its process is in the development of electronic manipulation through environmental microphones, cut-up, audio-feedback editing and the structuring of oblique frequencies, which rest on hypnotic drones....more
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