We have a new album out, called Woven All of Dream and Error. This fourteen-track record is being released today on Soft Noise Acousmatics, in collaboration with Estovers Editions.
There will be a launch event for the album on Friday, 20th June, 2025 at 8pm, at the Soft Canyon, at Voigtstrasse 36, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain.
Woven All of Dream and Error combines machine-learning-generated sounds of non-existent trains with accompanying trumpet, guitar, and effects. There are various aspects of drone, dub, and ambient music that have informed the development of these sounds, and the album’s website gives more detail about how this all emerged, slowly, over the five or so years that have elapsed since this work began. The album was preceded by the video for the lead track, ‘Dream 1.’
The album is available online (on the album’s website and on Bandcamp), and is also being released as a set of fourteen unique lathe-cut records—one for each track on the album. These records were cut on the unique transducer-based SL-24 lathe, at Nuclear Lighthouse Studios in Berlin, by Kris Slyka. Each record in the series is cut into eight-inch square transparent polycarbonate sheets, housed in custom hand-made covers.
The album emerged from the same research that led to our exhibition in September 2024 at Hošek Contemporary (also titled Woven All of Dream and Error). The album and the exhibition were prompted by the same set of questions. What remnants will remain, in an era where machine learning is becoming ubiquitous? How does this relate to existing remnants, which are the traces of past transformations? What traces are we leaving for the future?
The album, like the exhibition which it accompanies, is titled after a line from a poem—Sonnet XXVI—by Fernando Pessoa. This poem, and our curiosity about it, is one part of what is outlined in the project’s introductory video, alongside further details about the album and the surrounding context in which it came to be. It’s linked here below.
Some links about it all:
- Woven All of Dream and Error — the album’s website
- Soft Noise Acousmatics
- Estovers Editions
- SL-24 record lathe
- German Weapons, German Silence — talk given at the September 2024 exhibition
We hope you enjoy taking a listen!