The Galvanic Measure, by Acoxaca

The Galvanic Measure

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ES A stream of undulating waves gently swelling across time and space. Acoxaca deliver a sonorous meditation which bridges the seemingly vast gulf between the physical optics, both visible and obscured, of the atmosphere. These compositions are flooded with a gentle beauty, reflective of Earth’s encasing fragility, yet also wary of its sub-atomic turmoils.

Yet another stunning release. There is no other label I continually return to for such meditative alchemy. Favorite track: First Deflexion.

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	1.	First Deflexion 30:00
	2.	Second Deflexion 30:00
	3.	Third Deflexion 30:00
	4.	Fourth Deflexion 30:00
	5.	Oratunturi [calibration] 30:00
	6.	Pietarintunturi [calibration] 30:00

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‘...on a sudden, and in a portion of the sky which was perfectly clear, an immense stream of light began to blaze with a quivering motion, like a huge serpent…’

(The atmosphere and atmospherical phenomena, Thomas Dick, 1848)

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Four years since ‘In Abeyance the Devouring Flame’, Acoxaca return with further auditory delvings into the nature of atmospheric phenomena. Comprising two hours of music extending across four interconnected compositions, The Galvanic Measure finds Acoxaca at their closest to the unadulterated essence of the elements. This is slow music, stripped of ornament, and, notwithstanding its momentary swells, it is a music that is always tending towards silence.

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released August 1, 2024

The titles refer to Selim Lemström’s 1883 experiments with galvanometric recordings of the aurora borealis in Lapland. It is therefore appropriate that The Galvanic Measure began life as an excavation of Wagner’s Parsifal, as the German composer’s Musikdrama was premiered only the year before, in the summer of 1882, in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. The genesis of The Galvanic Measure centres around musical elements from Act III, and specifically the moments when the protagonist is overwhelmed by the beauty of the natural world. Ultimately, however, these found elements were removed during the compositional process to reveal a series of stark, low-voltage transmissions. Wagner’s last stage work can therefore be seen as an analogue to the phenomena that Lemström was attempting to document in the far north; a patterning of ghostly impulses that, over a century later, stimulated a series of auditory ‘deflexions’ in Acoxaca’s recording apparatus.

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