This is a unique guest mix. I have no idea what artists are in this mix, whether it's all samples or parts of pieces or original sounds or what. It is a collage of sound including many vocal snippets. Found sounds and music wash in and out, creating a hypnotic experience, unlike most Low Light Mixes.
The creator of this collage of sound sent along this rather lengthy explanation of this mix:
"I remember when we as a family used to visit our cousins at the weekends, generally good times and good memories.
I remember when I was around five or six, on one of these visits, my cousins showing some of my brothers and sisters and myself, a new pop-up book one had been given as a present.
Being very young themselves, they were most definitely in charge of this wonder and so as they very guardedly turned the pages they, very excitedly had to get on to the next pages as quickly as possible, to show their 'girls only' cousins their magnificent possessions.
So I would see these amazing pop-up book images showing incredible colour explosions in abstract shapes but never having enough time to absorb them fully before pages were flipped.
This only added to their strangeness and mystery.
When one sees fleeting images on pages being turned, in picture books that someone else is flicking through or advertisements and billboards, rapidly passing by while travelling on the bus or the subway, this recollection of blurred colours and sounds always pops up.
Murals also have a similar quality of being a transient experience, they have their own unique story to tell yet, I get the feeling that they seem to saying more than I am getting from them.
Also at a young age, seeing the Sistene Chapel and the masterful baroque murals and frescoes on the fuzzy TV screen, as the camera glided, seemingly all too quickly over, just left me with an impression of a quiet cacophony of sounds and music telling a story of the ages.
The convoluted colours and shapes seemed to run and blend into each other in a way that seemed cosmic in nature. To me, they left the feeling that they made strange, nebulous sounds.
One part of a mural can often pictorially seem to bare no relation to another part, yet I'm sure the artists' have a story of their own they are conveying and on their own terms, more power to them.
These expressions, no matter what the subject or intention, whether they are small in scale or panoramic, speak to the individual, of their offerings and each is yet another expression of
an aspect of a specific observation of life, giving back, anything from another supernova exploding an outrage at injustice, an insight to meaning, another flower bluming.
It's all relative, each work another perspective on what is.
Space Book could be thought of as an aural mural - a 'Maural' if you will.
I would like to thank all of the contributors to this project whose work is the foundations upon which this stands and the glue that holds this piece together.
Space Book - A Pop-Up Book Of Space by See'd"
I hope you enjoy this hallucinogenic side trip.
Cheers!
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