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Pulsatilla

by Magazinist

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about

“The temple bell stops but I still hear

the sound coming out of the flowers.”

— Matsuo Bashō


Pulsatilla centres around idiophones — bells, vibraphones, crotales, hand-built plate reverb, cymbal sculptures, and a wide array of struck resonators — as well as digitally-rendered versions of these instruments via physical modeling synthesis. Both bells and pasque flowers (pulsatilla) share an etymological connection with campana, an obsolete botanical term related to bell-shaped flowers. According to cultural historians, bells were once thought to break-up stormclouds and disinfect strange vapours emanating from swamps. For the early moderns, to “lustrate” something meant to ritually cleanse it, whether by fire, water, harmonious singing, or sonorous bellringing. Drawing on this historical context, Pulsatilla is divided into two movements which explore the interchange between raw acoustic recordings and digital synthesis, generating resonances and overtones on the threshold of audibility.

Magazinist is an experimental sound art duo whose compositions make use of extended techniques and materially-driven processes. Their projects attempt, through acts of collage and archival intervention, to make intangible landscapes of media

perceptible. Combining analog synthesis, digital sampling, and hand-built instrumentation, Magazinist conducts extended sonic studies in the form of immersive installations and multimedia performances. Their work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and the United Kingdom. In 2024, their multichannel audiovisual installation, Reverse Search, was exhibited at Sonorities Festival in Belfast. Magazinist is based in Vancouver, as it is colonially known, on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wúmesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

The proceeds of this album will be donated to Amnesty International.

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released April 4, 2025

Recorded and mixed by Matthew Tomkinson & Andy Zuliani

Mastered Jacob Calland

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Discreet Archive was created for music, writing and artefacts that explore quietness. This can mean many things, we like music that allows for space, presents sonority as objects and is concerned with the materiality of sound, sound as thing. We occupy a world of noise, discerning meaning in this sea of noise is increasingly difficult. 

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