This show will feature three ambient musical projects, each hoping to push the listener to a newfound sense of awareness of and relationship to the world around them.
Dialing In is a project picked up 25 years ago as a response to the war on drugs, war on terror and despair around American greed, hypocrisy and imperialism. The sounds are meant to be both anthemic and elegiac, and communicate through drone, repetition, vocal harmonies and frequent visits with the dead who share melodic truths that have always existed, but maybe need reminding. It’s a collage of old and new field recordings, records played live, and instruments sampled on half-functioning scavenged and inherited equipment.
Words often fail and people can feel overwhelming and inscrutable. But nobody writes music or creates art in a vacuum—it’s all already out there in the ether. Creative expression exists through collective means. Melody, rhythm and found sound have the potential to cut through some of the confusing noise. Dialing In is an attempt to tap into collective truths that sometimes can feel otherwise obscured.
The End is a composer and electronic musician based in Seattle. Nivaas is a weaver of harmonies and lyrics inspired by the earth, healing, and ancestor.
phantom 39 is a solo experimental ambient project based in Tacoma, WA. In it, Soma explores a modern interpretation of musique concrete and hauntological ideas. She often pushes against normative song structure and rigid tempos in favor of asynchronous rhythms, as often found in nature.