{"id":79173,"date":"2025-02-10T04:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/ambient-music\/the-longest-time-ambientblog\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T04:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:46:28","slug":"the-longest-time-ambientblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=79173","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Time \u2013 Ambientblog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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ACOXACA \u2013 THE GALVANIC MEASURE<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is the first time I heard music by Acoxaca<\/em><\/strong>, but it is not his (her? their? no idea) first release: there were two earlier albums, both on the same Other Forms Of Consecrated Life<\/em> label. <\/p>\n

With a running time of two hours (divided into 4 parts of 30 minutes each), this is music for patient listeners. There is a slow, barely noticeable but also undeniable, progress in these four movements.
The origin of these orchestral sounding loops comes from Wagner\u2019s<\/em> Parsival<\/em>, more precisely from musical elements from Act III, \u2018and specifically the moments when the protagonist is overwhelmed by the beauty of the natural world\u2019.<\/em>
These found musical elements, however, were removed afterward, \u2018to reveal a series of stark, low-voltage transmissions\u2019.<\/em> Herein lies the relation to the title: The Galvanic Measure<\/em> <\/strong>refers to Selim Lemstr\u00f6m<\/a>\u2018s<\/em> 1883 experiments with \u2018galvanometric recordings of the aurora borealis in Lapland.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

With its slow pace and long playing time, this music is extremely relaxing and meditative \u2013 perfect for passive listening, if you want. Its effect is not unlike that of William Basinski\u2019s Disintegration Loops<\/em> \u2013 but without the slow deterioration of the tape.<\/p>\n