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Ryan Smith - Language Lessons in Hyperspace

from WFLS#24 by Works For Loudspeakers

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"This track began life as an installation soundscape for an experimental theatre production. As I reworked it, I was thinking of psychonaut, Terence McKenna’s many accounts of entities he encountered in what he believed was another dimension after taking DMT. He described them as vibrating, jewelled, floating beings that looked something like constantly morphing, luminescent Fabergé Eggs. They spoke in a “coloured language” that became visible as they uttered the sounds, and they began playfully “‘singing’ bizarre objects into existence”. The objects were made of a similar jewelled “living opalescent” “translinguistic matter” that the entities were made up of themselves. They encouraged McKenna to try to produce objects with his own voice, an experience he described as receiving “language lessons in hyperspace”.

The music is created mostly from various gamelan instrument samples that I recorded shortly after returning from an intense three-month scholarship in Java, where I’d furthered my gamelan studies. The sampled voice is by Wellington singer, Emma Kaloay."

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from WFLS#24, released November 2, 2022
"Ryan Smith is a Pōneke-based composer and sound designer. He has made music for theatre productions (including the award-winning Traces: Ghosts from the Archives based on accounts of ghosts from Aotearoa’s history), radio features, installations and films (including animated shorts, and contributing Giallo-inspired horror music to the Troma film Grindsploitation 4: Meltsploitation).

Recent standalone music projects include collaborations with Marc Chesterman - Loop Zones and a remix for Marc’s Woodenhead Reimagined album."

marcchesterman.bandcamp.com/album/loop-zones-1
woodenhead.bandcamp.com/album/woodenhead-reimagined-2

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Works For Loudspeakers Wellington, New Zealand

Works For Loudspeakers is a platform for emerging & established composers working in the field of electro-acoustic music.

We invite submissions from anyone, anywhere, with any level of experience for works to be included in our now bi-annual listening events & compilations.

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