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Infrequency Modulations

by Myndflower and the Psound 74 Consortium

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1.
First Consciousness of Psound 04:28
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2.
Broken Gods 05:24
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3.
Infrequency Modulation 1 04:18
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4.
Luminous Grays 06:31
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5.
Hsuirad 05:39
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6.
Retraced Steps 04:24
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7.
Infrequency Modulation 2 05:02
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8.
Desvanez 06:13
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about

Among the first consciousness of sound that I had as a child was the many unusual sounds I heard at concerts in person from 1972-1975 at the renowned Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where my late father was working on his doctorate in composition. Some of his pieces were regularly part of the repertory at these concerts that featured the cutting edge of the music school oriented avant-garde that was thriving in that era.

As a result, the variable minimalism, dissonance, jaggedness, unexpected blends of tones and timbres, and unusual rhythms, poly- and atonal reverberations have been hard-wired into me from a very, very young age. This includes the odd combinations of electronics with acoustic instruments that were also part of the zeitgeist of music in the still-active space age.

Some of these pieces tap into the subconscious, the memories of those sounds that have blurred beyond recognition from what was then very much the soundtrack of my life.

A chance discovery of a flute and electronic music record that included compositions by two late friends of my father's renewed my interest in the concept of avant-garde electronic meeting acoustic instruments, also reminding me of the power and strange beauty of intense dissonance and energy, sounding...improvised. It recalls the same intensity and energy that the best improvised music and free jazz music from that era and the one just preceding it that so captivated me later on in my 20s and that I had the good fortune of playing with in several improvisation and jazz groups with one of the collaborators here, dear friend and long-time collaborator William Yale.

The sounds here, as noted above, are impressions of faded memories from my earliest consciousness of sound along with the world of sounds I explored with William Yale during the latter half of the 1990s, the universe of strangeness later opened up to me by other friends and collaborators here Ricardo Fernández and Brian Forés.

On the tracks:

"First Consciousness of Sound" and "Luminous Grays" are collage pieces that bring together recordings dating as far back as 2010 and up to 2022. The electronics are provided by Ricardo Fernández, the Vegan Surgeon, with whom I have collaborated on and off since 2003 in Kronopios and guesting on Vegan Surgeons recordings. Our last collaboration was titled "Unknowness" (2020) and a new one is in the works for a Spanish filmmaker in 2024-2025.

"Broken Gods" and "Hsuirad" are inspired by Persian composer Dariush Dholat-Shahi's use of the ancient tar and setar stringed instruments with electronics. Saz, similar to the tar but with an extra course of strings, meets the many sounds and talents of dear friend Brian Forés with whom I have worked ongoingly in the Deeplings and who has provided wonderful support and wild sounds on many previous Myndflowers.

The ancient world meets the electronic world here, and his contributions to "Infrequency Modulation 2" and "Desvanez" give us those layers and elements of wonder, of contrast, of dissonance that lie so deep in my subconscious.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and all-around music guru William Yale composed "Retraced Steps" for this collaboration, a cinematic trip into some nearby outer reaches. His treatments and additions to "Infrequency Modulation 1" take us even further out than we were originally, a launching point very much informed by the late Sonny Sharrock, though here on acoustic guitar.

credits

released March 20, 2024

Javier González - guitars, oud, saz, percussion, cymbals

The Psound 74 Consortium -
Ricardo Fernández - synthesizers (1 ,4)
Brian Forés - synthesizers (2, 5, 7, 8)
Tim Ramenofsky - percussion (1)
William Yale - prepared piano, trumpet, drums, percussion, effects (3, 6)

Recorded in various locales in California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, and Dundee, Scotland at various times from 2010-2024.

Final assemblage March 2024 at House of Light, Camarillo, Cali.

All tracks by JG except "Retraced Steps" by William Yale

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Myndflower blooms becoming the many colors of psychedelia past and present. As Myndflower, the sounds of multi-instrumentalist composer Javier González have reverberated from various home studios since 2009 seeking to find a place outside of the continuum of time, at once familiar and exotic, at once strange and known. ... more

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