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Bioluminescent

from L​î​la (Single) by Curioustín

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INSTRUCTIONS:

– Sit/stand/lay down in a quiet place. Become aware of your surroundings. Where are you? How are you feeling right now? How are you breathing? Spend a minute or more on this process.

PREPARE YOUR LISTENINGEXPERIENCE:

– Make sure you can see the albumcover for 10 minutes, (turn off or extend the screensaver if it's activated).
• Put on your best pair of headphones, or place yourself in the "sweetspot" of your speakers.

PRESS PLAY. LISTEN WITHOUT LISTENING.

• After the playthrough, take a moment to reflect on what you are feeling now comapared to before. Write something down if you feel like it.
– Unless you've already read it, read the accompanying text below. Did your experience match the text?
• Optionally: do another listeningsession with this new knowledge in mind.

– • – •

Bioluminescence, the ability of a living organism to produce and emit light. Angler fish, fireflies, some types of jellyfish... The list goes on.

In this case it's a metaphor: I'm sharing with you my own, newly discovered bioluminescence, "The Way" out of the darkness, my "Labyrinth of thoughts" – A way to live in some kind of harmony with my darker self.

Present is the essence of the yin yang-symbol from the Taoist philosophy, a way to remind myself that life is a balancing act, and also that there is light in the darkness if one only lets it shine through, if one lets go of all the mental obstacles.

Realize that the maze in your mind is «The Way», that no direction is more right or more wrong than another, that you are a unique creature too, just like everyone else.

Enjoy all the small moments in life. Make the best out of it, and don't be controlled by fear. We're all terrified to be alive, to be conscious, and to be, but in the end (the Now) we are, and we create.
Our two primary drive forces in life is making sure that the self survives, and our species survive. In other words, eat, sleep and fuck. We reproduce = we create. Do your thing your way. Treat every "rule" in life as guidelines. Experiment. Be curious. And make up your mind.

We are creations, creatures born (to be) creators.

– • – •

Field recordings were made with my previous Zoom Q3HD on a guided canal tour boat in Amsterdam, august 2016

Sound design made in Ableton Live with Circle 2 and Glitch 2 plug-ins mainly.

Everything is recorded, mixed and mastered by myself.

credits

from L​î​la (Single), track released August 18, 2018
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_GRATITUDE SECTION_

• A thousand thanks to Daniel Lindestad for exploring Amsterdam with me.
• A thousand thanks to Berlin, my flatmates in Moabit, and that late evening I watched a documentary on YouTube about Bioluminescense which sparked this project, literally. ;)
• A thousand thanks to the Universe, to Tao, «the Way», or whatever force or anti-force pulling or pushing us through time and space.

– • – •)
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Melodic, Electro-Acoustic Glitchy Music from the soul of the North, exploring the South.

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