Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation is the latest solo album from the Natural Information Society's Joshua Abrams and was made in collaboration with Lisa Alvarado and is a modern take on New Age meditation music. The piece was commissioned for the 2023 REDCAT exhibition to be played on two violas, both played by James Sanders, Harmonium and electronics. Without seeing the accompanying visuals, I focus on what the music feels like to me.
This album contains one 35-minute-long tune Pulse Meridian Foliation that has an ambient chilled feel, violas slowly bowed, over ambient underwater pulses and tones that rise and fall, enabling a deep sense of calm and serenity, making listeners more relaxed with every repetition of the main theme. The listener sinks further into a netherworld of deep spatiality and opaque horizons, emanating a calm centrality focussed on the rare bass drumbeat. Serene cushions floating timorously across the room. Mellower and mellower softer violas become, finding inner serenity. Are they seeking the path suggested by the veins of an oak leaf or is it more maple inflected deep from within the forest a line appears for you to follow ever more slowly more distantly rumbles echo towards you while you slip beneath the earth following the roots deep towards a magical awakening.
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