This is an extract in format of CD from large study in kwatarese* recorded during whole year 2020 conceived as one album of total duration 298 hours and 31 minutes (see all sub-tracks in pdf attached to “bonus”, please). This extract is representational particle of whole project comparable in structure to fractal.

All tracks were recorded as played “live” (no post-production!) in tuning-in with sound environment enhanced via weather sensitive installations (WSi) by Slavek Kwi on Atlantic side of Ireland.

Note, please, first 5 min (track 1 in online release) is designed to adjust your listening volume to comfortable level, this is the loudest part of whole CD.

“I deliberately chosen tonal instrument as representation of “I” as “human participant” as replicating textural sounds similar to those within environment seems somehow too obvious to pursue. The most close might be similarity to ancient concept of Indian Vedic “raga”, tuning to specific time in day or/and night”.

* abstract multi-dimensional meta-language resemblant to human concept of “music” using the surrounding audio-environment as interface (WSi = weather sensitive installation) of connection in between transmitting and intercepting parties simultaneously. “Kwatarese” is more focused on sharing the experience rather than information, looking for creating irrational sense of balance and resonance in between participating elements.

Set up for recording:
WSi: various chimes (metal, bamboo, polystyrene foam), wind-whistles, sound-flags, prepared gong, airharp - including sounds of environment, wildlife and human generated sounds.
Recording interface: stereo microphone Rode NT4 and mono DPA 4060 microphones placed about 20m from each other outside, contact microphones Stille&Klang attached to gong and airharp
leading via mixing desk Yamaha EFX8 to Sound Devices 722.
Tuning-in instrument: “kwatar” (4-string fret-less electric guitar with reverb'n'echoes)
Bubbling device via hydrophone CRT C55 (only 1st track)
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Parallel stream & fragments of thoughts:
Artificial Memory Trace.
Who am I?
The reflection within, of my own environment?
Inter-reflection?
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I have been exploring sounds since the late 70ties and after so many years, I am still just as fascinated by their endless potential. Not much has changed regarding the spirit of my approach: my goals, my direction, my focus:_: I am still searching for absolute freedom, the perfect conditions for freedom to arise _to unfold effortlessly - ever evolving. The core - the heart - stays the same, while form evolves all the time ... sometimes leaping from one extreme to another, sometimes slowly eroding … flowing in minute changes - each cycle almost identical to previous - the same the same but different - repeating in variations … reset! again and again …
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Imagine an alien race living in a completely different paradigm, communicating via sounds reminiscent of the human concept of “music” who can “see” the sounds, similar as human concept
of synesthesia. Imagine this alien is trying to tune in surrounding environment, looking for a ways to co-exist within unknown habitat. Every sound has the same potential to interact, all sounds are
equal participants in ecological organism. The alien is trying to find his own equal place within, the same as any other sound.
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I am listening in awe to surrounding environment. I wonder how I, as a human being, fit in? What is my place? How can “I” be an integral part of my environment by simply being “present”: here and now _ as an equal participant _ in the same way as weather, wildlife, any other occurring event. I am instinctively seeking a sense of balance, a feeling of harmonious belonging, a being together. Connection.
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The sound environment as energetic interface in between “I” as representation of singular entity and “the other” as the reality. The paradox is the inclusion simultaneously of both: singularity
and multiplicity together as third unstable form in state of perpetual oscillation trying to maintain the balance in between singularity and multiplicity.
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The music, the sounds, seems having magical ability – superpower - to tune effortlessly together, to collide in energetic harmony. Through intensive listening everything becomes alive, every subtle sound shivering in the air in tandem with my feeling of belonging. The music rises from an unknown and I am listening – speechless - in the core of creation itself:_: just listening to the primeval tone of my soul weaving into every moment, every other moment and another:
perpetually changing _ adapting _ seeking for harmony _ seeking for that feeling I am attracted to: freedom …an opening of heart to the world – fearless: …
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Practice as transient ever-evolving end-product.
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I am using the immediate surrounding environment as interface for connecting with “the rest of the world”, call it “the reality” if you wish. I have impression when I am trying to tune myself to my immediate sound environment, it helps me to be more sensitive to every perceptible minuscule fluctuations and changes between tension in my body - the emotion and the environment. Sound is my portal: a place to dream of endless possibility, of another future unfolding. A dream. Abstraction.
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Interesting character of abstraction is in its interpretation, it has infinity of options - therefore it represents ultimate freedom. Freedom of abstraction! The information is redundant. The experience is redundant. Resistance is futile. Everything is a question of tuning. Consonances of peace. The variations are completely unpredictable. The combinations of harmonious synchronous parallel realities seems endless. Close to infinity. The diversity as natural phenomena is focused on life. Interconnectedness is paramount! Listen.

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ALFA00 - (2)0)2(0_ (CDR, private)
This may seem a new name, but behind is Slavek Kwi, who we otherwise know as Artificial Memory Trace. I didn't know this new project, but his Bandcamp is filled to the brim with music. This particular CDR is part of a much larger work, 298 hours and 31 minutes long, and is a large study in kwatarese recorded during the whole year 2020. Kwatarese is an "abstract multi-dimensional meta-language resemblant to the human concept of “music” using the surrounding audio-environment as an interface (WSi = weather-sensitive installation) of connection in between transmitting and intercepting parties simultaneously. “Kwatarese” is more focused on sharing the experience rather than information, looking for creating an irrational sense of balance and resonance in between participating elements." Sounds great, even if I have only a faint idea of what it does. The first five minutes are the loudest bit of the 79-minute piece and can be used to adjust the volume to one's liking, the rest is then at the same level of comfort. Is this a field recording? Is this a computer playing variables according to the weather? It sounds like one of those meditation apps, which you set to automatic play at various intervals. This sounds better, more human, moving from section to section, more than these apps would do. There are instrument-like recordings, percussion, Aeolian harps or fences, rain sounds, drones and so on, and everything moves at a slow but steady pace. It is very ambient music, but it avoids the well-weathered paths of standard drones and synthesizers, and it takes field recordings in an entirely new direction, or so at least I think. As much as I loved this and wanted to hear more: when will find time to listen to 298 hours and 31 minutes of this? That was a bit of a downer, but otherwise, I think this is an excellent release. (FdW)