If you would like to download this music or just want to drop some pennies on me to show support, this album is also available at http://organismnoise.bandcamp.com
1. A Single Point in Space 0:00
2. The Line is Drawn 10:02
3. Triangulation 20:54
4. Squaring Off 28:44
5. Releasing Pent Up Anguish 37:13
6. A Hex for You 50:23
7. September Reminiscence 58:45
8. An Octopus Hug 67:40
9. Ninetey-Nine Point Nine (Online Bonus) 73:41
10. A Decanter of Nothing (Online Bonus) 83:37
All sounds, textures, and instrumentation by James Wicked. This album is intended for ritual/relaxation/reflection/reading. Primary frequencies utilized were selected based on their ability to stimulate brain activity. No binaural beats were harmed in the making of this record. Please use responsibly and with proper adult supervision.
All sounds generated using modular synthesizers, acoustic guitars, bass guitar, the human voice, and radio waves. No computers were utilized in this recording, only physical instruments and recording devices.
Engineered, Composed, and Recorded 1/16/16 - 1/18/16 at Spice Melange
Cover art - \"The Crow\" by AEM
Special thanks to Akasha's Treasures for the inspiration.
This is an album I put together over the course of a weekend for a local pagan shop. At the time I'd put this together, I had been doing a lot of reading and for background music, I was listening to a lot of drone, black ambient, and ritual music. I got the idea for this while browsing this pagan shop and realizing that the music being played there, while very pretty, was also very distracting. After looking into other meditation music, I realized that it was a pretty common theme for these things to focus on really bright sounds like bells, synthesizers with very little filtering, and a lot of drums. To me, this doesn't seem very conducive to meditation, relaxing, or reading. Black ambient and drone usually are associated with more sinister themes, but they fit the requirements better I think as they are usually more slowly paced, don't have loud abrasive noises, and generally lack rhythm. My modular synth system was starting to take over the studio, so I figured what the hell, I'll take a stab at the genre I'd been listening to so much at the time, and pitch it as a variation on relaxation/ritual music. It was a very frantic weekend that I put this all together and admittedly, I got carried away at times. (It's fairly evident why Ninety-Nine Point Nine didn't make the cut for the final CD.)
For those curious, a couple of these do experiment with brain wave stimulation by either being at the same frequency as brain waves or being at multiples of these waves to try to resonate with them. (A very good article that sums up the scientific aspect of brain wave frequencies can be found here: http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/04/15/5-types-of-brain-waves-frequencies-gamma-beta-alpha-theta-delta/) The reason for resonating instead of always mimicking is that to be frank, most of the frequencies are just way below the range of human hearing. With analog synthesizers, these extremely low frequency ranges often become heard as rhythmic clicks and pops as the oscillators are just snapping from one position to another at too slow a rhythm to create a recognizable frequency. \"Releasing Pent Up Anguish\" in particular used the base frequencies for delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma waves, so there's a lot of low-frequency content in that piece.
All in all, I had a lot of fun making this and I want to do it again sometime. Anyway, enjoy!
