Steve Roach - Immersion: Two (CD)

Release Date: 09/19/06

Mysterious yet calm, the perfect sound for the deeper hours or anytime a quiet, engulfing audio landscape is desired.

luminous steady state harmonic current ofImmersion: One. On this 73-minute longform soundscape, a sinuous weblike mist seems to emanate from the speakers. Mysterious yet calm, this is the perfect sound environment for the deeper hours after midnight or anytime a quiet, engulfing audio landscape is desired. If Nag Champa or Sandalwood incense has a sound this might be it.

Steve Roach’sImmersionseries is especially effective at low volume playback levels as the non-dynamic nature of this soundworld can support creative states, sleeping as well as reading and other functions where “music” is considered invasive (for example yoga, meditation, massage, or any other activity that calls upon the art of blending). Presented as a continuous zone with no real beginning or end, this 73-minute space is even more effective in dissolving the sense of linear time by simply activating repeat mode and letting it play all day and night at a quiet volume level.

Steve writes… “This continuous zone, titled ‘Artifact Ghost,’ has to be one of my favorites for late-night activity and sleeping. For years I kept coming back to it, as it always feels alive and never-ending, never beginning. This piece was a big part of the inspiration to start theImmersion series. If you were at any of my concerts in the mid to late 90’s, there’s a good chance you heard this piece setting the space before my performance. On Immersion: Two I took the opportunity to live with this zone again, to fine-tune and melt the ‘Artifact Ghost’ even more, creating subtle movements and adding nearly subliminal openings along the way. I was shaping this Immersion: Twoversion right up ’til the last moment. It’s playing in loop mode right now.”

CD in 4-panel digipak.