Migrations, by Simon Piler and the Atom Band

Migrations

by Simon Piler and the Atom Band

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1.	last winter 03:46		buy track
2.	Migrations 04:04		buy track
3.	water sliding downhill 05:26		buy track
4.	evening meditation 01:53	info	buy track
5.	pass(age) 18:05		buy track
6.	bird abstraction 06:41		buy track
7.	we can change we can survive (transect) 03:58		buy track
8.	Stampeders 01:25		buy track
9.	sea trombones 05:12		buy track
10.	rrrrrrrrrrr 02:26		buy track

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Migrations are groups of beings in motion.

Groups – in their mathematical definition – abstract biological migration. Mathematical groups include a set of things, the operations performed upon them, and the requirement that through the operations the set can arrive again at any state in which it began. Suddenly we are privileged to imagine migrations of ever wider sets of ‘beings’: societies, seasons, galaxies, eddies, molecules… or even a humble pair of shoes.

There is a bit of a contradiction in all this, of course: few natural forms ever return completely to the same state entirely. (Thus they aren’t groups; aren’t migratory.) Time unfolds with the terror of [in]formation and the beauty of decay into the bliss of the unknown. This record venerates that sensual, permeating flux of time - while focusing foreground attention on the components of things that can be crystallized into migratory patterns. Because the resulting music is relatively static in form and has no lyrical content, I consider it to be auditory ‘sculpture’, embodied:

In the face there is an eye,
in the eye a pupil.
The pupil forms a circle,
which is again the face.

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released September 20, 2020

Recorded/synthesized/edited at The Blue Home in the Native Village of Cantwell, AK; traditional homelands of the Ahtna people.

Citizen Jeff Kim wrote and plays piano on 'evening meditation'.

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