▲ Presents: Sonic Multiplicities

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The official podcast feed for works of Sonic Multiplicities performed by ▲. Each episode presents a complete, unmodified Sonic Multiplicities session, heard here exactly as it was performed at The Cathedral, ▲'s Brooklyn, NY headquarters. Join us for an intimate and intense journey through the roaring musical psyches of some of NYC's finest free improvisers! Highly recommended for fans of electroacoustic music, free and avant-garde jazz, noise music, the violin and the SuperCollider programming language.

  1. SM012: Delegated Powers / Crimes Committed

    01/11/2023

    SM012: Delegated Powers / Crimes Committed

    Delegated Powers / Crimes CommittedA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Garrett Semmelink on violin & melodica & percussion.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3 This Is A Quarantine Zone If you have not been quarantined, please exit to the left. In a moment of severe manufactured panic, we delegated powers to false prophets. This led to crimes committed, against a majority of the Earth’s population. Their effects will be felt for years to come; we’ve yet to fully comprehend the impact of these events, nearly three years later. Our followers will note the considerable date gap between our latest work of Sonic Multiplicities, and our prior works. The public health vampires that the population allowed to wield dictatorial control over our minds and bodies committed crimes against both Andrew and Garrett that would be unthinkable in years past. We both lost our profitable and prestigious jobs. We both faced serious health emergencies which the hospitals refused to treat. We both had friends and close family die far too young from suicide and despair. We both were let down by institutions, groups, and individuals who we thought we could trust. We both watched music be misconstrued as an act of selfish, pessimistic evil - intentionally, by people who wish us great harm. Worse of all, we are incredibly aware that we are not alone in these harrowing experiences. We have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep our music and our way of life alive. For Andrew, it required abandoning the city hellscape in favor of rural acreage. We rebuilt our lives in order to keep our passions burning, meeting incredible friends and well-wishers along the way. Music will never simply die. Sonic Multiplicities is an ideal that cannot be put back into the bottle. When we first started this project, we were naively unaware of how much the world would eventually become a polar opposite of the one we hoped and dreamed for. As “AI art” enters the global conversation via the corporate press and people continue reeling from the censorship and other dangers of centralized cloud computing, SM would appear to be as prescient an idea as ever. SM will live on, and so we announce Sonic Multiplicities 4.0.

    21 min
  2. SM011: Reflection, No. 4

    09/18/2020

    SM011: Reflection, No. 4

    Reflection, No. 4A work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Garrett Semmelink on violin & percussion.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3

    47 min

  3. 09/04/2020

    SC004: Head in the Clouds

    Head in the CloudsA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Garrett Semmelink on violin.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3

    6 min

  4. 09/04/2020

    SC002: Artifices

    ArtificesA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Tyler Dinner on guitar.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3

    8 min

  5. 09/04/2020

    SC003: Perspectrum

    PerspectrumA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Tyler Dinner on guitar.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3

    6 min

  6. 09/04/2020

    SC001: CMYK

    CMYKA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Tyler Dinner on guitar.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3

    8 min
  7. SM010: Nineteen Years

    08/26/2020

    SM010: Nineteen Years

    Nineteen YearsA work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Garrett Semmelink on violin.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3 The American is a single-issue voter: their vote goes to whomever will promise to never speak about the US’s endless wars in the Middle East and Africa ever again. Artistic Statement Despite the hundreds of thousands of innocent children who have died at the hands of US foreign policy over the past nineteen years, my fellow citizens feel it much more urgent and necessary to agonize over the yearly death toll of less than ten non-white individuals in 2019 at the hands of our domestic police. It is rather shameful that we, as a nation, would prioritize what is happening to a few of our own citizenry, instead of the massive clusterfuck of death, misery, and violence that we spread overseas. Not one of the cultural, spiritual, or political leaders responsible for facilitating 2020’s tensions in the US have mentioned the starving and cholera-stricken kids of Yemen, nor the ailing peoples of Afghanistan. They refuse to read about how the OPCW falsified reports to force Obama to strike targets in Syria. We remain in the country to this day, giving aid and even fighting alongside Al Qaeda with the goal of overthrowing the Assad government. Even those protesting against no-knock raids seem doomed to misunderstand the full breadth of the situation. These SWAT raids bear a striking resemblance to the kind of coordinated shakedowns of Iraqi citizens performed by the US military throughout that country’s occupation. It’s almost as if our tragic foreign policy leads to similar kinds of destruction here at home. This piece of music is intended to awaken the anti-war spirit of the American citizenry. I trust that my fellow Americans are not cruel, awful, or vicious people - they are just carelessly, tragically, and ruthlessly uninformed. I hope, for our collective sake, that we do not remain this way for much longer. But for each year we do remain at war, a new movement will be composed & performed, then added to the end of this work. We will catalog the history of this horrific oppression, enabled by the brain-dead American demos.

    30 min

  8. 08/25/2020

    SM009: People Over Platforms, 2020

    People Over Platforms, 2020A work of Sonic Multiplicities performed by Tyler Dinner on guitar.DownloadsOPUS FLAC MP3 Artistic Statement People Over Platforms, 2020 features the sweet licks and profound ingenuity of guitarist, Tyler Dinner. He takes us on a wild ride through his mind - a place where the 1970s never ended. It’s surprising, it’s magical, it’s profoundly original. Say hello to the other Multiplicity. You cannot escape it.

    46 min
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The official podcast feed for works of Sonic Multiplicities performed by ▲. Each episode presents a complete, unmodified Sonic Multiplicities session, heard here exactly as it was performed at The Cathedral, ▲'s Brooklyn, NY headquarters. Join us for an intimate and intense journey through the roaring musical psyches of some of NYC's finest free improvisers! Highly recommended for fans of electroacoustic music, free and avant-garde jazz, noise music, the violin and the SuperCollider programming language.

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