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LOPEZ, SUSANA (AKA SUSAN DRONE) — Materia Vibrante
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Small sounds and huge drones populate the surrealistic landscape of Materia Vibrante, Susana Lpezs gorgeous new album, her third for Elevator Bath and first on vinyl. Extraordinarily evocative, this LP is filled with detail and emotive tranquility, while occasionally swelling with the intensity of a raging sea. Surely Lpezs most elegant and finely hewn work to date, Materia Vibrante offers a fully enveloping sonic meditation.
The album was built from field recordings captured at megalithic sites in Ireland, underwater sounds recorded with hydrophones in the rivers of Asturias, and electromagnetic wave scans from Birmingham. These sonic landscapes are interwoven with synthesizers, digital harmonium, experimental sonic triangle, multi-effects, percussion, and Lpezs voice serving as a thread between the inner and the outer worlds.
The pieces within Materia Vibrante form a constellation:
Mundus Imaginalis is inspired by the imaginal world, that intermediate dimension where the intelligible and the sensible intertwine where vision and vibration merge.
Materia Vibrante reflects on the alchemical power of art to shape reality. In recent years, says Lpez I have undergone many changes including illness which have brought me into deeper awareness of my body, my organs, not just my spirit.
Sonic Meditation evokes life cycles and natural processes of transformation through expanded and ritualistic listening.
Luminescence is an ode to technological objects born of material imagination creations that have helped improve human life through their visionary function.
Taken together, the album's four pieces are an invitation to hear the world as vibration in perpetual becoming. A sonic journey that doesnt seek answers, but resonances.
https://susanloop.bandcamp.com/album/materia-vibrante
The album was built from field recordings captured at megalithic sites in Ireland, underwater sounds recorded with hydrophones in the rivers of Asturias, and electromagnetic wave scans from Birmingham. These sonic landscapes are interwoven with synthesizers, digital harmonium, experimental sonic triangle, multi-effects, percussion, and Lpezs voice serving as a thread between the inner and the outer worlds.
The pieces within Materia Vibrante form a constellation:
Mundus Imaginalis is inspired by the imaginal world, that intermediate dimension where the intelligible and the sensible intertwine where vision and vibration merge.
Materia Vibrante reflects on the alchemical power of art to shape reality. In recent years, says Lpez I have undergone many changes including illness which have brought me into deeper awareness of my body, my organs, not just my spirit.
Sonic Meditation evokes life cycles and natural processes of transformation through expanded and ritualistic listening.
Luminescence is an ode to technological objects born of material imagination creations that have helped improve human life through their visionary function.
Taken together, the album's four pieces are an invitation to hear the world as vibration in perpetual becoming. A sonic journey that doesnt seek answers, but resonances.
https://susanloop.bandcamp.com/album/materia-vibrante