Seofon,
of the Ambient Temple of Imagination, created an
album based on Attanasio's fiction in the 90's. We have
not been able to contact him through the Internet but hope
to reconnect someday, to get his current take on his work
and how it relates to the concepts in Attanasio's fiction.
Seofon
and the Ambient Temple of Imagination.
The
third of the six Islands discs, Seofon's Immanent features
three new pieces. These tracks continue the narrative begun
in Seofon's debut Causal Collapse, describing the imminent
movement from illusion to emptiness to timeloose mind. Drawing
upon the writings and concepts of esoteric science-fiction
author A. A. Attanasio, Immanent suggests impossible geometries
and other realms of consciousness with unraveling rhythms
and hallucinogenic atmospheres, vibrationally traversing
these images:
[Skyle
9.16] "It had experienced him wholly, shining with
the full possibilities of life, and eaten the strange, rectifying
the dimensionally charged gap between the optimal and the
actual. Crags of tree-crowded rock floated in space, glinting
with waterfalls and rainbows, the purple sky around them
swarming with their shadows and  delirious
cloudshapes. Hard to believe that when the infinity virus
first arrived here there was nothing but infalling cosmic
dust and light."
[Freemantic
3.35] "Where his flesh was, or should have been a palpable
blackness throbbed. Gazing into the core-darkness of his
body, glimmers of understanding flitted acorss his brain:
He was bigger than he knew, and getting stronger, drawing
strength from the sky, from the very core of the universe.
The Voice was not a delusion. It was real and he, the listener,
was the dream."
[Eth
6.54] "Only then did he comprehend. The fear that had
surged out of him a moment ago had reshaped the future.
This nameless man with the haunted, in-looking eyes was
the physical shape of his fear--his shadowself. This man,
somewhere in time, was him, his secret self, as unaware
of his psynergy as he was conscious of his immanence.
Seofon
- Immanent
Churning
rhythms and fluttering wisps of sound are imbued with upwardly
rising currents in Skyle accompanied by bass impulses. The
track segues into Freemantic, a billowing geyser of beatless
sound seemingly as vast, dense and powerful as a cyclone.
(David J. Opdyke for Ambientrance)
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Seofon
- Immanent
The
machine-spectre of [Csero's] 'Pikolifter' is overwhelmed
by Seofon who molds the three pieces of 'Immanent' into
a structured whole. 'Skyle' is propelled by a beat with
echoes of AmerIndian music, that carries through the track
supporting guitar and synth waves. Over this some chantlike
keyboards and rising tones create a driving space-tribal
movement. It fades and shifts into the short 'Freemantic'
which is an abstract piece of growling synths and metallic
vents with some synths swirling in the mist, before the
beat redevelops, growing out of the synths and into 'Eth'
which is an exciting drum-and-bass like workout of layered
rhythm loops with a melody sliding underneath. The three
parts of the disk fit together well, rounding each other
off and creating a nice balance. (Jeremy Keens for Ampersand
Etcetera)
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Seofon
- Immanent
The
Seofon disc also has some really nice chugging rhythms,
particularly on "Skyle," a surprisingly straightforward
toe-tapper with some cool atmospheric layers. (Phil Derby
for Sequences Magazine)
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Seofon
- Immanent
Number
three is by Seofon, a member of the Ambient Temple Of Imagination,
of which we recognize the sounds very well. Track one and
three are fierce up tempo rhythm pieces with ambient synth
washes underneath. The shorter second track in the middle
is a breathing exercise for seagulls and is hauntingely
ambient piece. (Frans de Waard for Vital)
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