Ambient Light - Cygnus Carmina

1. Olorum morte (15.16)
2. Narratur flebilis (24.09)
3. Cantus falso ut arbitror (23.06)
4. Aliquot experimentis (9.11)
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December 2009 (GogoYoko.com)
January 2010 (JonasThomen.com)

In most music the sound-scene is cluttered with sounds, so cluttered that you really can’t listen to individual sounds. When you allow it to happen the individual sounds can start playing one note melodies, microtonalities are an interesting thing... I made the changes very subtle and the tacks long to get the auditory hallucination effect. All of this album is fractal and granual synthesis, there are no “normal sounds” in it.

The names of the tracks and the album is from an over two millennium old myth that the mute swan (cygnus olor) upon it’s moment of death sings the most beautiful song. The tracks read together are a statement that this is wrong from the book Naturalis Historia by Pinly the Elder 77 AD “Olorum morte narratur flebilis cantus falso ut arbitror aliquot experimentis” which means “Observation shows that the story that the dying swan sings is false”. The dots on the cover are the main stars of the constellation Cygnus (the swan) and the name of the album, Cygnus Carmina means The swan song.