The debut album from LIMINA, the new project from film and game score composer Tyler Durham, comprises six pieces that, taken together, reflect on the ways in which inspiration eases into existence and, through collaboration among muse, body and technology, wrangles its way into being.
Combining ideas drawn from ambient electronic music, contemporary classical, and new age, the album openly explores transitive passages
and the very nature of the creative process. Crafted for single-sitting immersion with each of the six works building on musical ideas expressed in earlier movements and seamlessly flowing from one track to the next without interruption.
As if emerging from a darkened theater after a Monday matinee, we as a culture are currently in the early stages of an environmental realignment. After a relentlessly murky year spent in front of screens, we can see that sliver of glowing brightness beaming in from beneath the Exit sign. As we cross that threshold into the light, imagine one possible sublimely dynamic soundtrack: “Hidden Spaces".
The album crossed a threshold of its own when Durham eased his way through one discipline - composing for major motion pictures - and into a less hierarchical, more personal form of creative expression. His first venture into non-film or concert music, “Hidden Spaces” is a means of experimenting with form, texture and rhythm by fusing electronic and acoustic tones until the distinctions vanish. The works harness generative technology, sound synthesis and structural sturdiness until they seem to occupy a physical space.
“Hidden Spaces” comprises six pieces that, taken together, reflect on the ways in which inspiration eases into existence and, through collaboration among muse, body and technology, wrangles its way into being. It’s a deep, dynamic listen, one that weaves waves of ambient frequencies through minimal, precisely imagined beats to create a series of thematic entanglements. It’s a record you’ll think about after you listen to it. Like the cinematic experience the first time you saw “Blue Velvet,” “The Fountain”, or “Melancholia”, you’ll emerge from the experience with a sense that you’ve been transformed in some essential way.
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released August 3, 2021
All Songs Performed, Composed and Produced by Tyler Durham
May through July 2020
Violin performed by Emily Kriner
Recorded at Kriner Studios, NYC
Mixed by Michael Bouska at Azimuth Studios, North Hollywood
Mastered by Zino Mikorey at Zino Mikorey Mastering Berlin
Vinyl cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle Berlin
Album artwork “And The Rain Will Wash It All Away”
by Dennis Konstantin Bax
Design by Toddrick Spalding
A&R by Nitish Raina
I've just had this album playing in the background for several hours yet I'm at a loss for words as to how to describe how I feel right now. "Chronos" is simply fantastic. I've had my attention attracted to - but not held by - many similar recordings in the past, but it took Ausklang mere minutes to grab hold of me and not let go. The melody in "Future Memories" is catchy and that song plus the next two make for a very satisfying 20-minute listening experience. Awesome. Scott
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