focus

released November 3, 2022


The two tracks are roughly the same length and structure. Both are current noise generated by my touching a 3.5mm audio cable tip with right hand, maintaining two separate hand gestures (pinching and clutching) and holding it largely still. I had quite a cup of hot water before recording clutching, in which the intermittent mid-range frequencies were the sweat in my clenched hand, the shivering touched by the static had me moved a few times.

My idea is to stretch out a point of focus, psychedelically. The current swells and overloads in time, tightens. Something long and simple. -Sun Yizhou

Ern(e)st is Ernesto Longobardi - an Italian sound artist. 'MUSEUM' is one 20-minute long piece of exquisite abstract sound art. Using field recordings taken from a visual-art museum in the centre of Italy on a sunny and desolate afternoon, Longobardi has created a subtle and alluring work of calm splendour.
In this composition, Longobardi explores the material aspects that redefine space and environment as a living acoustic sound environment, which in this case is the interior of a visual-art museum with few visitors around. In this recording you will hear natural reverberations of the surrounding space, fleeting moments of ethereal ambience, the distant murmur of human voices, fuzzy static noise, swirling shimmery drones, shaking, shuffling, indistinguishable scratching and other miscellaneous sonic abstractions. Another brilliant Falt release which I'd highly recommend checking out. -Fletina (Audio Crackle Non-Music)