Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness

by Madison Greenstone

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1.	ecstatic consciousness i 03:26	buy track
2.	aeolian harp i 03:40	buy track
3.	flicker 03:26	buy track
4.	glass horn (acoustic shadows) 03:21	buy track
5.	aspects beyond thought i 02:24	buy track
6.	aspects beyond thought ii 03:05	buy track
7.	hidden name 02:51	buy track
8.	aspects beyond thought iii (shadow presence) 02:30	buy track
9.	ecstatic consciousness ii 03:26	buy track
10.	smell of the moon 04:23	buy track
11.	aeolian harp ii 03:44	buy track

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Each of these studies takes as its basis a mode of resonance latent in the Bb clarinet. This album collects iterative and essayistic reflections on the self-generative qualities of these resonances. The instrument becomes a site of indeterminacy. What happens when resonance overflows? Each resonance has some form of inner agency, some form of emergent phenomena that I search to breathe into being. This demands a continually renewed attunement to the liveliness of the sound: to its wildness, recalcitrance, and roughnesses. I sense that which seeks passage on the current of the breath. What wanders between? I fasten the conditions so that some other thing can emerge– without seeking to control, but merely to influence, to follow where it leads. Who follows during this passage?

-Madison Greenstone

The resonance studies' explorations of the inner harmonicities of sustained complex tones through the Bb clarinet present as beautiful microcosms, full of internal movements and uncontrolled, that come to build a narrative of excess, one that resembles a semi-open cosmos, designed to be heard with an ear which is always searching for and finding many connections. This is an intense listening experience, one that reaches me “like a rumble, like the roar of a distant cascade, like an event from the Old Testament, or the light of a star,” (Gombrowicz) bringing up old questions on repetition, identity, cyclicality, equivalence and time.

-Zeynep Toraman

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released September 22, 2023

Madison Greenstone - Bb Clarinet
Recorded by Joseph Branciforte at Greyfade Studio, August 29 & 30 2022
Mixed & Mastered by Weston Olencki, September - January 2022/23 Berlin
Original Cover Art by Golnaz Shariatzadeh

*Listed in The Best Experimental Music of 2023 by Marc Masters

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