Erstlaub - Sleepwalking Into The Underworld

The piece is based around the concept of being drawn to places of
resonance where the separation between different time periods are
thin, specifically areas of historic spiritual importance, the title
refers to the theme of ancestor worship and the idea of bodies of
water being portals to the underworld. Visually the piece calls back
the recurring themes of isolation within the vastness of the universe
and stillness as a measure of time.

The piece is an expanded hypersigil created as a response to real
world ideas and emotions but the space that exists between this
inspiration and the final output is more than just a straight
“musical” process. Elements of music theory, physics, maths play a
part, as do the deeper concepts of chaos/pop magic, dimensionality
within the universe and non-linear time.

This type of creative process involves taking an idea, feeling or
element of will or intent and translating into sound by means of
taking individual modular elements and focusing, refining and
condensing them into self contained, autonomous systems, usually with
an inbuilt “fail” system removing the technical purity and adding a
more organic edge. Larger pieces are then constructed out of a series
of these small systems and again, several of these will be combined in
sequence to create a narrative in the same way that sigils are formed
and sequenced into more complex hypersigils.

The real power lies in the charging of these hypersigil constructs,
when performed/captured, this series of slightly chaotic systems, each
built with very specific intent, start to resonate with the others,
waves stack or phase, things start to beat against each other or
harmonise. The construct becomes one solid, vibrating, continuous
piece of energy - there are ebbs and flows, things come into focus
before pulling away again, fire, water, earth and air elements shift
against each other, ghosts, memories, feelings, secrets, doubts, all
hang there in space, imprinted onto time, burning, a perpetual motion
engine of pure crystalised will.

The sound is pure synthesis with no samples or field recordings used
and was recorded in one take with no post editing or overdubs using a
Nord Modular G2, Behringer BCR2000 Controller along with boss re201
and dd20 delay units.

The video was shot on a Nikon D90 and edited in  Final Cut"

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