Review/Impressions by Thierry Massard on NocoVision
Published January 17, 2023
Published January 17, 2023
January 17, 2023 - 09:34 (GMT+1)
Try the experiment !
Start listening fully, as attentively as possible (9 hours and 52 minutes)
of Blanket Swimming's "Cloudlands", without stopping - Direct transcription in situ.
Strange intrusion, voluntary and contextual, in the banality of an ordinary day, in order, who knows, to subtract, add, react, combine or, more simply and without any particular expectation, appreciate a subjective impression of the whole, a random result (for now) certainly uncertain.
(Swells eroding the shell - overture) ... languid waves that interfere in the dull light of a european winter morning, appeasement, tranquility and perceptual accentuation of surrounding and exterior noises (passing cars, echoes of indistinct voices ).
10:18 - (Hills O'er The Cloudlands) ... suggested overview, the sudden urge (extremely rare) to reread the lines devoted to "Lightning Gallery" (Mahorka), self-agreed smile, for the brilliant " Magnanimity" / return to listening that has become less attentive, obscured by urgent thoughts, for one task, another. Modulation (nervous) on the sound volume.
11:10 - (Taro Fields) ... heightened monotony and totally immersive, benevolent, conducive to a renewed immediacy, savoring reality, savoring a contrast.
11:52 - (The Ocean Was Filled With the Moon) ... evasive distance, erasure, filigree soundscape, fading horizon / sounds of rain on pavement, fleeting thought for Brian Eno (and his Muzak concept) , for Andy Warhol's Empire, immediate re-reading of a few lines from the chapter "the magnate of passivity" by Stephen Koch - passivity ... muffled clicking of telephone messages.
12:34 - (Miles of Blue Grama) ... discreet loop, melted in the dialogues of a lunch, voices which fade away, spring up, effort granted by an attention of circumstance, a linear background.
13:40 - (Stable in Impermanence) ... requires intensity, optimal volume, space widens, flush infrasonic, acceleration and emotional diffraction / darkening of daylight, enslaved?
2:30 p.m. - (Tracing the Forest) ... the melodic temptation, symbiotic harmony, the careful brushing of grainy peaks / relaxed, forgetful attention, laborious daily necessity ...
3:00 p.m. - (Air Pockets in the Shallows) ...fluctuating harmonies, endlessly stretched / Contrast - Outside (provided with notebook), brisk walking, doors, hallways, dialogues and disconnected attention, sound echo distant, microscopic, that of a dangling earphone, omnipotence of reality, banalities, calendar synchronisation, smiles, thanks, these "air pockets" have, for the moment, become terribly inaccessible, erratic and regrettable almost abandoned. Corridors, doors, swinging headphones...
3:40 p.m. - still (Air Pockets in the Shallows) ... Back to more attentive listening, walking .... feeling of having missed something, a regret.
16:20 - (Mythic Scene Etched Against the Sky) ... outdoor duality, opaque cold of the air, cyclical vibrations, greyness, screeching from listening to parasitic recording fields, harsh noises not consented to, new accentuation of noises surroundings, crossed gazes, numb, mind suspended, forcing the pace, cyclical pendulum, drone whose elasticity is bitten, at any moment, forcing the pace, saying to oneself selfishly (passing in a street cluttered with works and machines) that the experience only makes sense if the synchronicity of the "ingredients" is, in all respects, concordant and not earthly.
17:13 - (Burrowing Reemergence) ... return (saving) home, monotonous breath, extreme drone, concentric sound impulses, compression of the awakened senses, the sound seems to graze silence, distinctively profiling it to finally give it shape - very impressive !
17:32 - (Celestial Light Orbs) ... significant if not obligatory break, the sidereal flight and the (personal) desire for a sweet moment. Again some obligations quickly engulfed in a multidimensional widening of the sound field, to sacrifice to one's greedy desire... celestial, predominant confluence, the right answer to the aforesaid pangs of sound.
18:30 - (Orange Sky Over Martian Landscape) ... ephemeral territory, voluptuous appreciation of a space without apparent limits, the soundscapes unfold to infinity, slender ballet and slow moving contortions, mental volumes and harmonies in perfect osmosis, we finally reach the possible plenitude, of a musical perfection, without daily hindrances.
Produced from July to December 2022, Blanket Swimming's "Cloudlands" make Nicholas Maloney, the brilliant instigator of a very disturbing and new lucidity - An experiment.
Try the experiment !
Start listening fully, as attentively as possible (9 hours and 52 minutes)
of Blanket Swimming's "Cloudlands", without stopping - Direct transcription in situ.
Strange intrusion, voluntary and contextual, in the banality of an ordinary day, in order, who knows, to subtract, add, react, combine or, more simply and without any particular expectation, appreciate a subjective impression of the whole, a random result (for now) certainly uncertain.
(Swells eroding the shell - overture) ... languid waves that interfere in the dull light of a european winter morning, appeasement, tranquility and perceptual accentuation of surrounding and exterior noises (passing cars, echoes of indistinct voices ).
10:18 - (Hills O'er The Cloudlands) ... suggested overview, the sudden urge (extremely rare) to reread the lines devoted to "Lightning Gallery" (Mahorka), self-agreed smile, for the brilliant " Magnanimity" / return to listening that has become less attentive, obscured by urgent thoughts, for one task, another. Modulation (nervous) on the sound volume.
11:10 - (Taro Fields) ... heightened monotony and totally immersive, benevolent, conducive to a renewed immediacy, savoring reality, savoring a contrast.
11:52 - (The Ocean Was Filled With the Moon) ... evasive distance, erasure, filigree soundscape, fading horizon / sounds of rain on pavement, fleeting thought for Brian Eno (and his Muzak concept) , for Andy Warhol's Empire, immediate re-reading of a few lines from the chapter "the magnate of passivity" by Stephen Koch - passivity ... muffled clicking of telephone messages.
12:34 - (Miles of Blue Grama) ... discreet loop, melted in the dialogues of a lunch, voices which fade away, spring up, effort granted by an attention of circumstance, a linear background.
13:40 - (Stable in Impermanence) ... requires intensity, optimal volume, space widens, flush infrasonic, acceleration and emotional diffraction / darkening of daylight, enslaved?
2:30 p.m. - (Tracing the Forest) ... the melodic temptation, symbiotic harmony, the careful brushing of grainy peaks / relaxed, forgetful attention, laborious daily necessity ...
3:00 p.m. - (Air Pockets in the Shallows) ...fluctuating harmonies, endlessly stretched / Contrast - Outside (provided with notebook), brisk walking, doors, hallways, dialogues and disconnected attention, sound echo distant, microscopic, that of a dangling earphone, omnipotence of reality, banalities, calendar synchronisation, smiles, thanks, these "air pockets" have, for the moment, become terribly inaccessible, erratic and regrettable almost abandoned. Corridors, doors, swinging headphones...
3:40 p.m. - still (Air Pockets in the Shallows) ... Back to more attentive listening, walking .... feeling of having missed something, a regret.
16:20 - (Mythic Scene Etched Against the Sky) ... outdoor duality, opaque cold of the air, cyclical vibrations, greyness, screeching from listening to parasitic recording fields, harsh noises not consented to, new accentuation of noises surroundings, crossed gazes, numb, mind suspended, forcing the pace, cyclical pendulum, drone whose elasticity is bitten, at any moment, forcing the pace, saying to oneself selfishly (passing in a street cluttered with works and machines) that the experience only makes sense if the synchronicity of the "ingredients" is, in all respects, concordant and not earthly.
17:13 - (Burrowing Reemergence) ... return (saving) home, monotonous breath, extreme drone, concentric sound impulses, compression of the awakened senses, the sound seems to graze silence, distinctively profiling it to finally give it shape - very impressive !
17:32 - (Celestial Light Orbs) ... significant if not obligatory break, the sidereal flight and the (personal) desire for a sweet moment. Again some obligations quickly engulfed in a multidimensional widening of the sound field, to sacrifice to one's greedy desire... celestial, predominant confluence, the right answer to the aforesaid pangs of sound.
18:30 - (Orange Sky Over Martian Landscape) ... ephemeral territory, voluptuous appreciation of a space without apparent limits, the soundscapes unfold to infinity, slender ballet and slow moving contortions, mental volumes and harmonies in perfect osmosis, we finally reach the possible plenitude, of a musical perfection, without daily hindrances.
Produced from July to December 2022, Blanket Swimming's "Cloudlands" make Nicholas Maloney, the brilliant instigator of a very disturbing and new lucidity - An experiment.