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The Quivering Sky

by Nathan Moody

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user_friendly I think this is one of my favorites from Nathan Moody. While exploring this world you can almost always hear something that you never see. Maybe its behind a wall or in the floors. Other times it could be miles away. Yet, what really gets me about this story is all the times you can actually feel someone/thing brush by you or slither over your feet. Every once awhile you can almost see something, but never fully.

Absolutely brilliant. Favorite track: Vacuum Abhorrence.
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“The Quivering Sky” is a "dark ambient concréte" EP that was entirely performed by the wind.

Nathan Moody not only found remote barbed wire fences and power lines in areas that funneled the wind, but he also built various aeolian harps of wood, steel, and piano wire. Gusty springtime winds to make these objects hum, buzz, resonate, creak, and clang for hours throughout the day and night, creating stochastic rhythms, serendipitous events, and aleatoric harmonies.

The result, recorded largely with contact microphones over many months, shares affinities with the work of Alan Lamb and David Lynch: at times calming, at others unnerving, while gleefully blurring the boundary of sound design and music.

This EP is not an album of pure field recordings. The pieces are edited, arranged, and processed to create composed soundscapes powered by invisible forces. Background noises and mysterious sound events from the unsupervised recording sessions are left in the outdoor recordings, to be further transformed – often being shifted into or out of the range of human hearing – through radical pitch and time shifting, sometimes turning hours of recordings into mere minutes.

Sitting squarely at the intersection of field recording, sound art, and dark ambient music, “The Quivering Sky” offers dense layers of aeolian sound that asks us to consider the invisible forces surrounding us, and the limits and consequences of human agency within the natural world.

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released April 22, 2022

Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Nathan Moody
3D visuals by ErnesTRuiz (www.leoanka.net)
Photography by Christoph Kummer (www.flickr.com/photos/kuemmi/)

Special thanks to Michael Raphael, Rob Bridgett, Jeff Schmidt, Sean Costello at ValhallaDSP, Jay Jennings, Nia Hansen,
Primoz Boncina, Paul Boechler, Yanni Caldas, and Peter Albrechtsen.

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Nathan Moody builds worlds with sound, though the release of albums and scoring for films, podcasts, and games.

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