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The title '\u003cem\u003eTragedy and Geometry\u003c\/em\u003e' is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (muse of tragedy) and Polyhymnia (muse of geometry), or more specifically, the collision\/overlap of what they invoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening track is also a direct reference to 'Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence', the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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First within his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music, and later across a steady and critically-acclaimed stream of solo releases spanning ambient techno, arpeggiated electronica and post-kosmische styles utilizing synthesizers, computers, and digital processing. In 2018, he extended a collection of rich, visceral tracks titled \u003ci\u003eDissolvi,\u003c\/i\u003e his first release on Ghostly International and his most collaborative work to date. Just a year later, Hauschildt returns with \u003ci\u003eNonlin\u003c\/i\u003e, an album that’s freer, leaner, and looser, both structurally and conceptually; less linear compared to its predecessor, but still captivating. Developed and recorded in several studios during and around the edges of tour — Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Tbilisi, and Brussels — this material emulates an alienating encounter with a smattering of places, a replicant of culture shock, a solitary and stark experience with uncanny environments, melody and dissonance as oblique locales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNonlin\u003c\/i\u003e finds Hauschildt evolving his palette of tools, integrating modular and granular synthesis. The improvisatory and generative nature of modular systems, when paired with his signature grid-oriented and hand-played techniques, guides these compositions slightly out of line to hypnotic effect. Opener \u003ci\u003eCloudloss\u003c\/i\u003e permeates the mix with an unsettling smog, which reappears and all but engulfs\u003ci\u003e A Planet Left Behind\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Hauschildt continues to expand his already horizon-wide repertoire, here exploring the effects of corrupting coordinates; a flight subject to the collapsable abilities of time in remote spaces, a smearing of the axis to elegiac ends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Silver | LP.","offer_id":50449097621835,"sku":"1075253","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449096507723,"sku":"1075252","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/13b3b3a8-eb35-4906-bfc9-a99515c66389_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727099075"},{"product_id":"where-all-is-fled","title":"Where All is Fled","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve Hauschildt's new album is his first since the late 2012 release of 'Sequitur'. Although 'Where All Is Fled' sonically harkens back to his earlier albums such as 'Rapt for Liquid Minister' and 'Tragedy and Geometry', it slowly becomes apparent that it is also a divergence from those recordings. Both the artwork and the music on this new work were heavily inspired by surrealist landscape paintings, early alchemical emblems, and recurring visions Steve had from dreams. The result is a pristine series of cascading melodies, fantastical terrains of layered lattices, and overlapping patterns of synthesizers superimposed with orchestral instrumentation. Hidden in the crevices of the album are processed crowd sounds, re-sampled text-to-speech synthesis, piano, and animal noises which reveal themselves after repeated listens and blur together notions of artificial and natural sound. While slowly unfurling, each sound is given it's own place and space, never hurried, never cluttered. 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