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Atria is a full length LP featuring compositions written between 2007-2013, including performances by esteemed musicians from Gamelan Pacifica,Gamelan Kusuma Laras, and Gamelan Rakyat, as well as Eyvind Kang, andrecorded in multiple contexts with sound engineer Mell Dettmer.The term ''Atria'' emerged in a dream in 2007, at a time when I was simultaneouslywriting new music for the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble at the invitationof Chris Miller, and recording ''Voices of Spring'' with Ostad Omoumi. ''Atria'' soundedlike the Latin plural of atrium, evoking the chambers of the heart, and reminded me ofthe Javanese Satriya or ''Knights'', but it was only later I realized the reference to theArabic triliteral root ''atr'' or scent. This music has come into being in a similar way, byassociations, breaths, correspondences, and dreams, with the untranslatable and theinexpressible as a compass. At the same time it is a document of a learning process,and although I have been so fortunate to have incredible teachers, all the errors anddelusions are my own. This is a meditation on an internalized meta-historical dynamicbetween Javanese and Persian traditions, and is a tribute to the role of sound in thecontext of esoteric practices, including prophetology and healing water. 1. HER SWORD I 2. TURNING INWARD 3. SARIRA TUNGGAL 4. PAMOR5. WIJI SAWIJI MULANE DADI 6. INGSUN 7. HER SWORD II
Atria is a full length LP featuring compositions written between 2007-2013, including performances by esteemed musicians from Gamelan Pacifica,Gamelan Kusuma Laras, and Gamelan Rakyat, as well as Eyvind Kang, andrecorded in multiple contexts with sound engineer Mell Dettmer.The term ''Atria'' emerged in a dream in 2007, at a time when I was simultaneouslywriting new music for the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble at the invitationof Chris Miller, and recording ''Voices of Spring'' with Ostad Omoumi. ''Atria'' soundedlike the Latin plural of atrium, evoking the chambers of the heart, and reminded me ofthe Javanese Satriya or ''Knights'', but it was only later I realized the reference to theArabic triliteral root ''atr'' or scent. This music has come into being in a similar way, byassociations, breaths, correspondences, and dreams, with the untranslatable and theinexpressible as a compass. At the same time it is a document of a learning process,and although I have been so fortunate to have incredible teachers, all the errors anddelusions are my own. This is a meditation on an internalized meta-historical dynamicbetween Javanese and Persian traditions, and is a tribute to the role of sound in thecontext of esoteric practices, including prophetology and healing water. 1. HER SWORD I 2. TURNING INWARD 3. SARIRA TUNGGAL 4. PAMOR5. WIJI SAWIJI MULANE DADI 6. INGSUN 7. HER SWORD II