{"title":"Palace of Lights","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"resting-forms","title":"Resting Forms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eResting Forms \u003c\/em\u003eis the second set of collected tracks in K. Leimer’s Forms series. While adhering to the same process used for Proximate Forms, these pieces tend to settle into slightly calmer, more meditative states. Bathed in lush timbres, smooth harmonic distortion set in wavering, modulated soundstages, the music is at once evolving and still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePare closes the album as the clearest example of the guiding principle of \u003cem\u003eResting Forms\u003c\/em\u003e: to reduce every aspect of the audio to some granular minimum. As the title implies, Periphery keeps its distance, refusing to coalesce or adhere to a center. Limn properly provides the barest outlines of a construct while Littoral evokes a more fluid state, perhaps referencing the watery calms of a Neu! track. All the while the instruments shift their character, moving in and out of their original state reaching for the remote and the recognizable, for distortions and deformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeimer sought to explore and manipulate sampled acoustic instruments in ways that find a balance between the original source and its reinvented self. The Resting Forms began by using a more traditional compositional approach — shared meter; chromatic settings; melodic gestures. All were present at the outset, then dismantled, reimagined, reevaluated, and reassembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the nine tracks of \u003cem\u003eResting Forms\u003c\/em\u003e Leimer guides and edits and processes and restates his work to invent a music which has never existed in any single genre. And he arrives again and again at a reliance on and an embrace of the absolute primacy of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK. Leimer’s Forms project is comprised of three collections emphasizing the free association of voices, pitches, effects, structure, and processing: Proximate, Resting and Muted Forms are scheduled to be issued throughout 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palace of Lights","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53278229463371,"sku":"R5558-8649","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/149020_main.jpg?v=1756493985"},{"product_id":"weighted-room","title":"Weighted Room","description":"\u003cp class=\"text-600\"\u003eEach track of \u003cem\u003eWeighted Room\u003c\/em\u003e is shaped by multiple generations, arrangements, and voicing of the same starting material — drawing audio out of midi and flipping audio back into midi to be repeatedly rewritten, recast, retimed, and re-voiced. “Oddly enough by putting these tracks through dozens of iterations the music more or less determined its own form. As a result there’s way more variety here than is typical of any one collection of my work, but it still holds together as a singular statement” Leimer said. To complete the album Leimer edited, layered, and processed the seven pieces using different parts and passages from all their generations. Some versions contribute as little as a single sound, others form the overall structure, while still other generations play in the foreground, middle ground, or background. The track styles span ambient, dark ambient, new jazz, noise, and new classical with equal focus. As one example, the title track flips the relationship between a lead instrument and the ambient textures that were the original focal point of the music by obscuring its evolving, granular atmosphere with a more melodic sensibility, asking the listener to give attention to buried aura — emphasizing the inversion of traditional instrumental roles which is the defining characteristic of Weighted Room. Mastered by Taylor Deupree with cover art by Simon Adjiashvili, Weighted Room adds a distinctly new setting to K. Leimer’s catalog. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palace of Lights","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56134718751051,"sku":"R6529-1875","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/195269385347.jpg?v=1765979133"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/palace-of-lights-1.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}