This space is intentionally a part of the void.
Having stated the credo of this site and our lives, but before expounding on what may, to some, appear to be a type marmot or ware-bunny, let’s take a step back and talk about the concept of music itself.
For me, music is an inner exploration of the entity known as the artist. This artist has no conception of who might be the receiver of the music. It flows outwards from what I call the hara and into musical form. Other entities also commonly known as artists do similarly, but what flows from their hara might become writing, painting, sculpture, coding, goat herding or anything, really. Thus, for me, creating art is an intimately individual pursuit and during its process, no receiver is in the artist’s mind. I believe, in fact, that having a receiver in mind during the process could ultimately diminish the resultant form. I’m aware that this may not be a popular point of view.
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Much of our catalog is available at the Kunovitý Records Faircamp.
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As stated on our bandcamp page and possibly in other places:
Flavigula wavers in crepuscular zones, modulating among ripples and maelstroms, within spectra of snow and hailstones. Neither she makes delineations among the pleasing and unsightly, nor distinctions within the crystalline, shifting phase. Bounding in abstract landscapes, she thrives.
Of course, that is slightly pretentious and says nothing about the musical project itself. I, the writer of these pages, am the main composer and player, although my compatriot in sound sculpting, Christian Michael Newman, can be credited with myriad ideas and end-game scenarios.
Drifting Chords is the name of an ongoing series of improvisations that is “An experiment in harmony in which I randomly generate two chords (usually by rolling dice) and then try to feel my way from the first to the second through a series of intermediate “modulations” whilst improvising.“ Though synths can be heard within the tormented ambience from time to time, the pieces are primarily created with ambient guitar textures and choice cosmic gesticulations.
I also participated in the most recent Looptober phenomenon. As the name implies, every piece of music is based on one or several loops. However, this may or may not be the case with what I came up with.
The most recent “proper” album is Greenhouses and Other Oddities on or within the Moons of Neptune. The pieces are mostly dance-worthy, so grab your guy or gal before putting it on and clear a bit of space to twist and flop about. The album was constructed during eight months of intermittent toil. The result is a cross between a “traditional” Flavigula album and a more improvised affair, which makes sense since much of the album began as a series ambient improvisations. Submarine Broadcasting also was gracious enough to make it available through them, along with a 12 page zine or booklet or “informative essay”. The printed matter is also available on Faircamp as a pdf included as a download with the music itself.
(Greenhouses and Other...)
(Submarine Broadcasting)
Nine Sided Die, the previous and quite different proper album, was released on 5 December 2023 on Submarine Broadcasting, and is also available on Faircamp.
On the next to the last day of May, 2023, Pagan Park - Seminole, Texas was released by Full Spectrum Records (and can also be found on Faircamp). It details times spent in one of my childhood “homes”. Well, specifically in a park near that “home”. Ironically, it was not until I was in the later years of my life that I spent time walking in this park, sitting on its benches pondering the Duality and Trinity Trees, and observing how it interacts with the dry cusp of Seminole, Texas. Much of this album is the result.
Were you not compressed into a singularity by the previous few paragraphs, you’d visit myriad other places suited to Flavigula listening:
Firstly, mirlo.space and bandwagon.fm brim with not just ours, but myriad musics seeping from the universe’s crevices. Secondly, there is no thirdly. Thirdly, our Bandcamp page, which usually, possibly unfortunately, lags behind the rest.
(mirlo.space)
(bandwagon.fm)
(Bandcamp)
I have gotten to know a number of musicians via the fediverse, particularly Mastodon. In fact, I’ve collaborated with a few.
Tim Rowe makes amazing, eclectic, atmospheric music.
Kris Boudreau (as Kynduum) is the author of many disturbingly absorbing soundscapes.
Jayrope, from his expansive den in Berlin, generates varigated, organic, experimental musics.
Eidon is a composer and bass player extraordinaire who specializes in short, complex, contrapuntal pieces.
Schall und Stille creates fantastic electro, epic, ambient, and emotional pop music that must be heard.