Experimental Electronic Music
Placing special emphasis on creating piano flavored ambient meditations capturing the moment, these compositions are splattered with improvisation and chance. Iván Muela is fascinated by the way technology can become an essential part of the compositional process.
The project focuses on sound textures, an exploration rather than a pure melody, at others, the feeling comes across like the low-end rumble of a beat-less Berlin nightclub seeping up through the floorboards.
What you’ve just experienced is a harmonized rendition of our universe’s untold complexities, an auditory exploration into the very fabric of existence. It’s an invitation to not merely look but to see, not just to hear but to listen, as we collectively seek to unravel the universe’s hidden structures.
I am carried about on the circularly flowing strings within dim and transparent emerging elements and an odd mixture of electronic textures, granular and glitchy, and decorated with humorous abrupt collages.
Still Time celebrates humans and nature, always considering that we are here on Earth together. The music reveals some new percussion sounds added to the studio at Space Center Music Productions in Sandane, Norway, and some experiments with international ethnic voices.
Featuring delicate old tape machine samples alongside a 20-strong ensemble of world-class musicians, recorded in four countries, clearly the compositions use the full spectrum of natural and synthetic symphonics, combining perfectly into these classically informed arrangements.
Sometimes the constant listener might be passing right through the lines between ambient-electronica and post-rock, with layers of shimmering synths and gone distant etherial guitars.
This new version of niemandsland has ten titles, with alternate versions for a total of seventeen tracks. This is a twenty year old ambient recording revisited using modern tools, the original version was self-released in 2006.
