As the calendar winds down for 2024, we still have a few more treasures to share. This one comes from Jeff Gburek, who should need no introduction to regular readers here. On this release, it comes out courtesy of Post Orientalism Music from Berlin, Germany. From the release’s Bandcamp site:
“Heliopathy — the feeling of — or for — helios, our local star: a yellow dwarf, although it’s funny to call this ball of super fire — so huge — a dwarf, & this is where relativity comes in, I suppose. Heliopathy is not to be confused with heliotherapy but there is no reason not to find within these sounds some form of vibration that can tune or calm the spirit or nerves.
All the sounds you hear in this project derive from radio waves that were recorded October 7 to 18, 2024 during a period of increased Coronal Mass Ejections, during what astrophysicists are now calling an early solar maximum peak, a time when the sun pours out the most radiation in its 11-year cycle.
These sonoscapes are generated using Audiomulch and Max-MSP and rely on a set of field recordings of VLF (very low frequency) radios, shortwave HF receivers, ground wires (ELF) and various antennae and sine wave generators in harmonic phase with Schumann resonance.”
