Grand Trine, by Ümlaut

Grand Trine

by Ümlaut

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1.	Aspect Pattern 05:20	buy track
2.	Triplicity 05:06	buy track
3.	Subjectively Positive 06:38	buy track
4.	Opportunities 05:50	buy track
5.	An Emphasis 05:18	buy track
6.	120 Degrees 05:34	buy track
7.	All Three Planets 07:02	buy track
8.	In These Areas 06:40	buy track
9.	The Expression Varies 06:56	buy track
10.	Common Sense 05:12	buy track
11.	By the Native 05:04	buy track
12.	Equilateral 06:15	buy track

about

A year into lockdown, the pandemic forced me to take a deeper look into myself. Taken out of my comfort zone, I decided to experiment. To think in different ways about composing my music. Themes of luck and chance inform the underlying creative process behind “GRAND TRINE”. In astrology, a grand trine is a harmonious pattern formed when three planets in a horoscope chart are each placed 120 degrees apart in a single moment in time, creating an equilateral triangle. Mindful of the implications of this arrangement, I simplified and clarified my attempts to capture the solemness of the times using meditative images that invited reflection. A contemplative walk through a slowly morphing tapestry gave birth to other musical languages employing sound, form and function. These elements, constellating as dust and interspersing with sparse notes, are disseminated over a landscape of subtle noise. In constant fluctuation, the complex combinations of tones remain warmly alien. Although soberly futuristic, this album is a sombre and subdued effort that, in the end, feels inherently satisfying.

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released December 1, 2021

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux.

Using a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach, his elusive patchwork of field recordings and electronics merge the world of shadows and colours. Allowing for infinite possible interpretations, he lets the listener’s imagination fill in the blanks between the grainy textural sounds with elements of ambient, musique concrète and noise. Combining spaciousness with a sense of intimacy introduces a musical language of experimental ambience. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence.

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