About this item

Electronic musician Xopher Davidson drops ‘Lux Perpetua’ via Daydream Library Series. A noted protége of Maryanne Amacher, Xopher recorded these two tracks in 2020 utilizing vintage synths within the beloved music studios of Mills College in Oakland, California. Xopher builds his experiments in electronic sound from a basis in painting, photography, and film, and through an interest in electronic circuits going back to building radios and homemade circuits as a kid. He has built and explored the sound world of a homebrew modular synthesizer comprised of surplus laboratory equipment: various oscillators, pulse generators, filters and an analog computer.

He has released 4 albums as ANTIMATTER : ‘Transfixion’, ‘Antimatter Vs. Antimatter’, ‘Our Lady of the Skies’, and ‘Reset’. As an audio engineer, Davidson has worked on projects composed / performed by: the League of Automatic Composers, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Subtropic, Diamanda Galas, Kid 606, DJ Rupture, Darwin's Bitch, Once 11, Mix MasterMike, Hans Grusel, Phoenecia, Jonah Sharp, We, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Iannis Xenakis.

"Absolute Phase" is dark, non-linear; frozen in deep ice. Teeming with macrobiotic as the cogs of organic existence grind to an almost stationary halt. I guess it's title alludes to the dual stationary position of his oscillators - just guessing!

"Lux Perpetua" carries on the theme onto side B but with a little more movement and evolution of phase. Piercing tones are introduced subtly but noticeably, and sonic filters are applied to some of the frequency range to create feelings of low pass. The 'buzz', or distortion, seems to increase as we near the track's climax as well as some rather pleasing upper register harmonies, hidden fathoms deep within the wall of sound.

File under: dark drone, seismic ambient, canyonesque noise. 

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Absolute Phase (18:25)
Side 2
1. Lux Perpetua (16:17)