With Clearwater, Maps and Diagrams (Tim Martin) crafts a hypnotic meditation on erosion, decay, and the quiet instability of sound. Blurring the line between ambient composition and sonic disintegration, the album drifts through fractured loops and dissolving textures, revealing beauty in impermanence and space.
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Maps and Diagrams :: Islands (Handstitched*)
As you listen, following the slowly emerging sustained long tones, the suggestion of rattling bones, sunshine, lavender and beautiful clean beaches come to mind.
Maps and Diagrams :: if all will be lost (quiet details)
All in all, this personal take on the quiet details concept exhibits a deftly turned lower-case sound design prowess that bespeaks years of audio craftsmanship, constituting a compelling entry to a growing catalog.
Maps & Diagrams :: Obscura (Handstitched*)
Acrylic paints and paper art loaded with intrigue, ambient noise and introspection, lo-fi, tape-based pieces in short-form compositions.
Maps and Diagrams :: A Study of Ends or Purpose (Handstitched*)
What I hear are experimental, textured soundscapes, multilayered fusions of digital and analog techniques, sparse haunting keyboards and atmospheres…
X.Y.R. / Danny Scott Lane :: Temple Of Solitary Reflections / UNTITLED (Handstitched*)
HS42 is a tour of studio creations from St. Petersburg, Russia and Los Angeles, California, allowing an easy going jungle-bird themed extended moment…
The Green Kingdom / Maps and Diagrams :: Audioloom 1 / Streams (Handstitched*)
The Green Kingdom’s Audioloom 1 and Maps and Diagrams’ Streams meander through tranquil ambient corridors where blissful melodic strands drift in the margins.
Kiss My Arp OR The Quest for Ceyx (+ Violins)
Ceyx Quest is the latest Handstitched*, by The New Honey Shade, aka audio-visual artist Mark Kuykendall, who, as well as recording himself also produces, masters and engineers sound for films and […]
Beyond The Bristol Sound… Subtext to Fluid Audio
A post-card from Bristol—post-trip hop, drum’nbass, dubstep, a view beyond The Bristol Sound. Alan Lockett surveys the field, and picks out new sounds from Subtext, Sullen Tone, […]
3VIEW :: Maps & Diagrams / x.y.r. (Handstitched*)
We catch up on three recent releases from Tim Martin’s Handstitched* imprint, two from the head of the house with his Maps & Diagrams hat on and one […]

















