Where improvisation breathes: SIDI's Unreached loops through modular synthesis and concrete sound, evoking perpetual motion without arrival—dark ambient tension at its most visceral. Stan Stewart's Piano Freedom captures honestly human, yearning live piano improv from a concert of 80 witnesses striving to retain their freedoms. Gregory Scheckler's Trailheads drops off well-worn jazz and funk paths into deep, luxurious grooves, while Céleste Gatier's Ermitage de la Fumée Violette weaves disharmony and rupture into a shimmering refuge for the soul, and APPARËT's Tristesse Apotropaïque channels slow, pastoral post-rock chamber magic where sadness ends and love remains.
Lars Haur
nodalities
something generated very procedurally but contains elements of randomization and chaos
Stuart Orchard
Between Constant Attacks Shimmering Sounds Ring
individual notes disappear into a grander wash