theAdelaidean: Distant Objects in Soft Focus (Digital)

Product Description Distant Objects in Soft Focus 1 Old Water 2 Cryptid Chorus 3 Dawn Fades 4 Hide Awake 5 Day Dreamt 6 Melted Memory 7 Gravitic Lens 8 Notion Blur 9 Uncanny Instants 10 Distant Objects in Soft Focus 11 Echo Trails Suspended in slow stasis with frequent pauses for reflection, Distant Objects in Soft Focus is theAdelaidean’s 13th Projekt release of fractalized ambient electronics. Inspired by recent experiences composing for the stage and screen, theAdelaidean (AKA bestselling Australian author Sean Williams) weaves an intricate series of conceptual narratives into an album of densely layered sound. DOiSF imagines the world as a series of half-forgotten moments by means of impressionistic pad washes, looping field recordings, fragmented melodies, and wordless voices. Each complex arrangement leads the listener through forests of lo-fi textures and subconscious resonances of stillness and personal reflection. Sean says, “About the 'Distant Objects' in my title: my albums are frequently about connecting with things far-off. Whether I’m composing with collaborators who live in different parts of the world, such as Steve Roach and Mirko of Deepspace [Parallels, antigravity], about places like Antarctica [Hyperaurea], or using old field recordings I made when I was young [Isolation], there’s an element held at a remove that I’m trying to engage with. Growing up in Australia, a place so far from the rest of the world, will encourage that. I feel there’s a lot of yearning in my music for something just out of reach. "Watching my collaborators in film and other media explore focus, movement, Mise-en-scène and other techniques, in order to draw the audience’s attention along very precise lines, has been such an inspiration. In music, I don’t have those literal tools at my disposal, but the musical tools available today are incredibly powerful, for example software enabling complex spatialisation. In one of my roles as project lead of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts’ 32-channel ambisonic studio in Adelaide [The Cube] I take it as a creative challenge to incorporate these new compositional tools into my music. On these tracks, sounds drift in from far off and retreat back into the distance with control I never had before, suggestive of memories half-captured of times long past.” Distant Objects in Soft Focus is a mercurial release within theAdelaidean’s growing catalogue of albums, moving restlessly and with confidence between elegant evolutions and across fractal boundaries. Projekt release: October 25, 2024 love it, share itfacebook twitter pinterest google