an exploration of the sonic under terrains lurking beneath the surface of our every day world
by your roving reporter from the Oscillating Oculus returning from the deepest depths,
As the echoing ululations evoked from my writing incur all the melodic overtones necessary to provide a haunting sonic backdrop, I've layered in lyrical melodicism with the sibilant whispers of the cutting edge sands issuing from serpent's scales hovering in an eerie blend suspended among the deep down bass undertones of a chanted serenade, I am driven to keep thinking about the first couple of tracks which emerged in time to help develop what would come to be half of the four song album Dream Lore of the Star Winds.
Such are the evocative sounds to be heard within the twenty-two minute demo dubbed The Nameless Mist, from Luciferal's Key, a recently introduced glitch poetics artist who cropped up last October on SBR's cosmic horror dark ambient compilation Esoterrexus, an album featuring over twenty musicians and clocking in at over three hours in length. There is a mother lode of soundscape artists featured on this looming asteroid slab of a compilation, all of them exploring deep, brooding sonic terrains etched from the loneliest corners of our soul's most desolate spaces.
Track sixteen is Luciferal Key's seventeen minute long offering, Nyctelios in Atheron, a funereal dirge of droning backdrop that evokes monks chanting from deep within the cavernous underground, amid the lurking presence of a serpent with shimmering scales hissing in a series of hypnotic rattling sounds seemingly designed to keep the listener spellbound.
Today I decided to take action and get the second track out. I knew what I had to do, and followed through with the specifications, and composed another piece of ambient music, which ended up clocking in at 22 min long, because the sublyrical source text was three hundred and fifty two words long, consisting of thirteen hundred and twenty characters. These string together much like cursive writing and when read aloud, succeeds with interpolating the ceaseless articulation of its delivery.
This new track seems like a continuation and deepening of Nyctelios in Atheron, so The Nameless Mist might be a good way to end the four track album, sharing the function of bookends with the Esoterrexus track. But that has yet to be determined, as I'm still in the midst of this album's construkction.
The other two tracks might end up serving in a different sonic vein, unless I introduce a certain verbal editing construction to the other two which imparts their own distinctive flavors in structuring and sound. Apparently if I were to compose verbal written lines in which all words beginning with 's' or even containing the "s" (serpentine hissing) sound were removed for example, then the resultant recording would naturally reflect that, meaning the removal of the familiar, dragon like hissing sound explored in the first and final tracks, seemingly resultant from the incessant amount of sibilance that prevails in general English as a matter of course. A careful consultation of certain consonants and phonemes could be edited out to produce a more distinctive recording. For that matter, translation into a foreign hieroglyphic language might yield its own parameters of interesting sonic interpretive measures.
Nyctelios in Atheron has its origins from the raw demo track Dominion, put out on Thornswrath's Soundcloud channel. This track has been classified as a 'glitch poetics' drone track, pretty much. It has its own logo that I designed with the help of various ai algorithms to produce something alien & surrealistic.
This would make for a nice gatefold cover layout for a double LP in the dark glitch ambient scene.
Luciferal's Key got its start a few years ago when I produced a three track, six minute EP called Murmurings, whose song titles reflect the names of craters located on the dark side of the moon.
All three of these tracks are raw one-take recordings made with my iPhone of me playing the Yamaha keyboard spontaneously, summoning a forlorn mood. One take improv recordings with no tampering; as lo fi as it gets.
The desolation of the moment gets captured nicely on these short raw demos. They have lain down the groundwork for future Luciferal's Key projects. With Dream Lore of the Star Winds currently in development, it looks like the direction it's going in has set sail on a steady course into the heart of mystery. There's a certain elegance in the articulation of the themes Luciferal's Key deals with that remains hidden just below the surface of our everyday comprehension. That's the beguiling aspect.
I want the ambient music inherent to LK's recordings to contain about them an immediacy of the moment enough to capture and hold the listener's attention, even if they have it on headphones while daydreaming from the window seat of their morning commuter bus to work. I've recorded various other sorts of sound experiments, interested in twisting instrumentational snippets into differing lengths of sonic loops, which I aspire to play together to generate a nonrepeating, interactive ambient backdrop all its own.
The key to what made the Esoterrexus track, Nyctelios in Atheron a success for me, well it's the fact I sent the raw demo to my friend Omensworn, resulting in a collaboration. He first mastered it by giving it depth of sound and left / right dimensional stereo, and faded in and out of the piece, but he also embellished a very minimal backdrop of sounds, with a subtle melodic interpolation, to complement and accentuate the demo itself. The results are a seamless and full bodied atmospheric soundtrack which enhances all the subtleties of my compositional sequence, replete with its nonrepeating and rhythmic qualities inherent to the lyrical soul and flow of the conjuring script. If it wasn't for Omensworn's input and collaboration, there wouldn't be an album, nor a platform for Luciferal's Key. A sense of sincere gratitude and a hearty "thank you" goes out to him, for helping to make this dream of mine come true. Here's to the project finding its resolution over the following weeks to come. Cheers!
Stay tuned for more subharmonic frequencies
from the darkest nether regions of the under realms
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