Mekonium, by Michael Anklin

Mekonium

by Michael Anklin

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1.	Chiaroscuro 02:03 video	buy track
2.	Hagneck 06:33	buy track
3.	Okapi 08:07	buy track
4.	Ruba 02:14	buy track
5.	Exon 02:05	buy track
6.	Zymosis 01:59	buy track
7.	Pythia 11:32	buy track

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Inspired by the pureness of ritual and traditional music,
Mekonium sounds like a documentation of a fictional ceremony.

Topics such as temporal consciousness, minimalism and anti-virtuosity,
as well as sounds barely perceptible by our auditory system,
influenced the production process.
Drones, soundscapes and slowly morphing repetitive patterns establish a state of time.

To represent the concept of reduction, each track starts off with a single instrument or sounding object on which the composition slowly started to grow.
Like grapes fermented into wine, acoustic sounds developed into different sound manipulations, still preserving the „taste“ of the original sound sources.

The Tracks „Exon“ and „Zymosis“ contain a musical deconstruction of Lucas Rössner’s bassoon. Sounds from the Instrument were dissected with different types of microphones and rejoined into a collage.
Hagneck, a hydroelectric powerplant next to Lake Biel was stocked with a number of contact microphones resulting in a huge powerful drone which built the fundament of the track.

Mekonium deals with the feeling, condition and dilation of time.
Musical fragments are played simultaneously at different speed, acoustic sounds were frozen, deformed, stretched and rearranged.

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released March 25, 2022

Written and Produced by
Michael Anklin

Bassoon (B2, B3) by
Lucas Rössner

Mastered and Cut by
Noel Summerville

Final Mix and Artwork by
Benjamin Kilchhofer

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Michael Anklin Switzerland

Michael Anklin is a drummer, electronic musician and producer living in Switzerland.
He uses field recordings, analog synthesizer, tape machines, as well as self-constructed sound objects.

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