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by lijnenspel

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3 minutes 03:18
2.
10 minutes 10:19
3.
15 minutes 14:49
4.
30 minutes 30:27
5.
60 minutes 01:01:11

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A meditator tries to blur the lines between a meditation session and daily life, yet the meditation timer disturbs the quietness by concluding with a chime. Can we conclude the sit with silence instead? A free fall guaranteed.

Then there are hourglasses, majestic symbols of time. Sand falling as a white noise generator, a time limited sound source to mask out external noise. Soothing waves of the sand sliding, ending in an firm silence.


Five hourglasses were recorded using a custom microphone, creating five different meditative recordings of 3 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and 60 minutes, each representing silence dotted by gentle noise.

The recording process was research intensive due to the difficulty of recording with extremely high amplification (100,000x). The recordings were made in an anechoic chamber due to the sand clocks’ sound sensitive glass exteriors, which would otherwise pick up a lot of noise from the environment.

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released November 5, 2021

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lijnenspel Italy

Lijnenspel is a sound artist based in North Italy. Using home-made esoteric synths, field recordings, code and saxophones they explore the interplay between form, timbre, and volatility.

They have performed shows across Europe, in Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Russia.
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