A Closer Listen with their Ambient Spring Music Preview

You're keeping up with Dr Sean Albiez's Substack Song of the Atom: Electronic Music before 1945, in which he explores early pioneering work in the field of electronic music. In Toward a New Music he looks at the work (and book) of Carlos Chavez.

Human After All: City of Clowns by Marie Davidson - a superbly written review by Will Salmon

Sketching Venus is Mat Smith from Mortality Tables and An Impermanence is an experimental 54 minute track he made in 2001 for an art event called Turf, in Luton. It now inaugurates a new series called The Impermanence Project.

This is a large-scale collaborative project across different disciplines, where designers, artists, musicians, sound artists, writers, poets and photographers will be invited to respond to the word 'impermanence'.

Although Smith's been challenging artists to respond to his own sound recordings in the long running Life Files series, this new project neatly aligns itself with the hugely successful Quiet Details series (where artists respond to the term 'quiet details') but widens the format of artistic responce. The project will run until December this year and the results will be revealed in an exhibition in 2026.

Emika's Kickstarter campaign How To Make Music Immersive runs until the end of the month. Check out this video where she explains what it's all about

As he prepares for the release of his new album Nebula, Jens Berents Christiansen, aka Danish composer Rumpistol, has created a delightful mix called Stargazer Mixtape, packed with space-themed music. Beautiful stuff.

"When Folk Meets Dub and Reggae" - great selection from Andy Thomas, bringing to light an unexpected musical hybrid you didn't realise you needed in your life. Almost all his recommendations are worth checking out but I particularly liked the sound of Perpetual Musket by Elijah Minnelli, Guanyin by Jah Wobble & Family and Air An Turas by An Dannsa Dub

‪All the Darkroom Dubs compilations are free to download atm, all compiled and mixed by Silicone Soul:

1. Darkroom Dubs Volume One (2005)
2. Darkroom Dubs Vol​​.​​ 2 (2010)
3. Darkroom Dubs Vol​.​ 3 (2013)
4. Darkroom Dubs Vol. IV (2017)
5. Darkroom Dubs Vol. V (2022)