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SOLAR SEQUENCES

by VOICES OF THE COSMOS

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VOICES OF THE COSMOS - Solar Sequences
Limited vinyl edition by Don't Sit On My Vinyl!, 2020

Geomagnetic Hiss composed, recorded and mixed by Wojciech Zięba. Additional sounds by Rafał Iwański.
Radio Borealis composed, recorded and mixed by Rafał Iwański & Wojciech Zięba. First version of the track was released on the compilation Akusmata (2019, Antenna Non Grata).
Solar Sequences composed, recorded and mixed by Rafał Iwański & Wojciech Zięba. Toruń and Grudziądz, March – October 2020.

Mastering: Marcin Bociński | legatomastering.pl
Artwork and layout: Wojciech Zięba
Astronomical consultation: Sebastian Soberski | planetarium.grudziadz.pl
Coordination of the "VOTC IV" project: Rafał Iwański

VOICES OF THE COSMOS project combines efficiently the achievements of astronomy with electroacoustic music. The creators use the original extraterrestrial signals and sounds received by radio telescopes (e.g. pulsars, magnetospheres of planets, Sun, aurora borealis, masers) and other radio devices, sometimes they use sonifications and archive recordings from space missions. Instrumental tracks integrated into the processed rhythms and tones of the “space sounds” are created with electronic instruments, both digital and analogue, as well as various acoustic objects.
The project has been presented many times in scientific institutions and at music festivals, in the form of audio-visual concerts, also in the version extended with astronomy lectures and sky observations. It is a unique initiative in Poland, which uses the original space recordings, including from a 32-metre fully steerable single-dish radio telescope located at the Institute of Astronomy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Electronic music and radio astronomy are inventions from the first half of the 20th century. From the very beginning, both areas were permanently associated with technical progress and new technologies that determined their development. Artistic productions such as “VOTC” kind would not have been be possible without the achievements of modern astronomy. Outer space with the necessary technological support to convert radio waves into acoustic waves is full of the source of sound phenomena: noises, vibrations, pulsations, shreds of melody, grunts, as well as chaotic and mysterious sounds, often difficult to determine.

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released November 20, 2020

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"Despite the fact that it's pretty easy to get them classified into a cliche label - both gentleman did their very best to make their project classifiable into the terms of scientific sound research rather than another drone ambient album.
The density of the structures in those three tracks, the ingenuity of some of the ideas for the structure and arrangements plus a wide array of source sounds used here makes you think that both of them are experienced in their craft and make a surehand choices of what might be just another experimental ambient album.
The contents of the album invites you to thinking that the inventions of the XXth century are used here as an idiom to create the wholesomeness of all the bleeps, squelches, grunts, drones and textures both rhythmical and background. With adds all up to something of a conondrum of sorts. An ironic and serious comment on the technological development in those troubled times."
Hubert Napiórski, Felt Hat Reviews: felthatreviews.blogspot.com/2021/01/solar-sequences-by-voices-of-cosmos.html

"The sheer sound of Voices Of The Cosmos will continue to draw listeners especially eager to separate from incongruous and now obsolete aspects of ambient music. Assuredly fresh and ingénue, the work of the polish project stands as a lighthouse at the shores of this musical genre and a magnet to attract newer soundscapes in their field."
Santa Sangre Magazine:
santasangremagazine.wordpress.com/2021/06/03/voices-of-the-cosmos-solar-sequences/

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VOICES OF THE COSMOS Poland

VOICES OF THE COSMOS is a project created by two sound artists: Rafał Iwański (X-NAVI:ET) and Wojciech Zięba (ELECTRIC URANUS) and an astronomer Sebastian Soberski. VOICES OF THE COSMOS uses the original extraterrestial signals and sounds (pulsars, magentospheres of planets, Sun, aurora borealis, masers) captured with radio telescopes and other radio devices. ... more

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