Opus 2, by Ethernet

Opus 2

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1.	Monarch 07:52	buy track
2.	Correction 07:39	buy track
3.	Cubed Suns 10:10
4.	Dog Star 10:52
5.	Dodecahedron 07:24	buy track
6.	Pleroma 13:33

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Developing on the trance-induction and brainwave entrainment techniques explored on the first Ethernet album 144 Pulsations of Light, Opus 2 moves into deeper, more introspective and emotive territory. A stronger focus on melody and harmonic structure results in pieces that almost approach, but never quite arrive at, traditional song forms, while still leaving much to the imagination of the listener, evading mental categorization and revealing new sonic experiences with each listen.

The bulk of recording took place during the darkest months of winter in the Pacific Northwest, between late-night shifts providing technical support for hospital operating rooms. The pieces on the album each formed gradually and spontaneously during extended improvised sonic meditations as part of the composer’s own trancework (or self-hypnosis) practice, this in an effort to remove specific compositional intention from the process, instead just allowing them to “happen".

If 144 Pulsations… was about expansion of awareness and opening to the light that surrounds us, Opus 2 is intended to induce inner contemplation and internalized focus on the light within us. It is also a statement on the gradual darkening and inexorable decay of our modern world, and the need to look within to find true support and sustenance from one’s own energetic source. Patience and perseverance.

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released January 7, 2013

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Pulse-ambient music, releases on Kranky, Carpe Sonum, Recycled Plastics, Lifelike Family, Tamarack Music, Waveguide Audio, others.

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