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Resonating Chamber

by Charles Wesley

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1.
Murmurations 01:16
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2.
Slow Storm 01:29
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3.
No Clue 04:39
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4.
ITBWFMH 01:37
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5.
Chamber 03:42
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6.
ÉVENT 03:07
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7.
Deliquescent Object 01:24
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8.
Parade 03:56
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9.
Sonnenblume (Night to Dawn Version) 04:40
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10.
Grimace 1 01:59
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11.
Empty Room 02:50
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12.
Without Noticing 05:49
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13.
LiquidImpact 03:01
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14.
Tuning (End) 00:52
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Resonating Chamber has been composed out of synthesized sounds and recordings which were made in empty spaces with particular acoustics, enabling objects and sometimes Charles's voice to reverberate. Written between 2018 and 2021, this first large piece of work contains tracks that merge pop sensibilities and experimental production. It also collects strange sonic abstractions clearly weaved to the active yet fragile path of listening and thrives towards unsettling relationships.

In empathy with sounds, Charles aims at keeping the listener aware of different rooms, where musical structures emanate sometimes unclearly. They seek a human halo in timbers, leading to unexpected harmonies. Harmony heard as Pauline Oliveros stated it as the action of « perceiving relationships through listening ». 

By questioning their form, whether tracks on here are compositions, songs, experimentations, they all draw spectral appearances, unstable and temporal objects. Their titles are clues to their features.

The « Chamber » in question cristallises at times an intimate space portraying emotional contextes, at others a playground containing phenomenological vectors, ambiguous forms. 

Charles's voice throughout the album is beguiling between the human and the animal, the feminine and the masculine and is reflected by synthesis ; a language finding its way within a desolated landscape. It could be a deserted technoïd city, a once euphoric rave floor now empty, a bush polluted by white noise.

*ITBWFMH stands for "In the Box Which Forms my Head"

Music, photography, design by Charles Wesley

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released August 12, 2021

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Charles Wesley Lyon, France

Charles Wesley’s a recorder, composer, poet, and photographer.

Influenced by pop and industrial music, he carves his own sonics to pull the strings of his queer identity in an age of global exhaustion. Spoken words and chants resonate in environments to celebrate love in growing beyond the status quo.

There’s some desolation clanging to his sound, still it cries out clear and euphoric. ... more

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