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Frozen (featuring Michelle Yom)

by Grove of Whispers

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After watching Akira Kurosawa's Ran I asked Michelle if she could do something similar to the music at the end of the film. I had intended to use whatever she sent me as part of a rain style ambient soundscape. This track is what happened instead.

Inspired by the idea of freezing the ground under the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. Thank you Michelle for your beautiful music.

The track included on the survey was edited to bring it under 10 minutes. This is the original.

I wanted to do a soundscape kind of like rain and a flute playing that sounded a bit like the flute at the end of Akira Kurosawa's Ran. I asked Michelle if she could do something like that and she said she would and sent me a couple bits of her playing her flute. When I heard it mixed with rain it sounded good but also it sounded like something I have done before (and something others have done before as well).

So I let it set for a while. A few months. Then one day I was listening to Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks" and I thought of Michelle's flute tracks. I though I can run them through some heavy reverb and improvise around them. This happened to be at the time that it was proposed to freeze the ground under the Fukushima Reactor. This is the first and only take.

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released May 30, 2015

Michelle Yom, born in Seoul 1982, started piano at three, flute at eleven, and after studying classical music, switched to improvised music in 2004. After studies in Boulder and New York, she moved to Houston, where she was active in the improvised music community since 2006. In June 2012, she quit her choral director position and moved to Berlin. Now she spends most of her time with the flute continuing exploration of new sounds and timbres using voice, circular phrasing, and finger drumming. Most recently, she began using microphones and speakers to amplify the small, inside sounds of the flute, and use it and its feedback sounds as another material for improvisation.

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Immersive dark ambient soundscapes. The struggle between the ghost and the machine.

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