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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- 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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- 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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