Athanor

ATHANOR

This winter me and Hilary Cox were in residence at Monom Studios, where we composed over three weeks and spatialized over eight sessions a 28 minute work designed for the studio’s 4dsound spatial audio system.

The project involved a collaborative workflow in which our adapted processes to the 4D environment took form further as each of the four movements of the piece were realised, allowing for a narrative arc that corresponds to the creative process itself.

Reflecting the method of its creation, the title relates to the allegorical furnace of the psyche in archetypal psychology.

Athanor begins with a speculative and dreamlike collage of field recordings, reverb-drenched guitar and choral echoes that converge in aquatic synthesis before moving through fragmented and dynamic vocal abstractions and intricate rhythmic sound design. The final chapter envelops the space in harmonic resonance as waves of warm analog oscillations sweep across the spatial field.