Spontaneous Dimensions by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory

"Immersive sound design cascades through fields of cinematic whimsy. Blooping electronics, hollow breaths, sharp cuts, and a host of organic sound sources combine to create a series of playful vignettes. So much to explore here."

Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis, The Capsule Garden Vol 3.15: July 10, 2024

"Opanasiuk creates sound collages from whatever he extracted from his Eurorack machines. That modular feeling is the backbone of the music, but by layering, editing, mixing and removing, he creates his own sound world, and the compositions are particularly strong"

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (number 1445)

"The unexpected juxtaposition of motifs, loops, drone extensions, short sonic events of varying emotional intensity, and woven together into individual compositions is an unconventional excursion into the quintessence of sound itself."

Marek Nawrot, Anxious, 9 September 2024

"Ukrainian composer Taras Opanasiuk explores spontaneous soundscapes, blending free improvisation with a meticulous compositional process as he transforms modular synthesizer sessions into five compelling sound collages that balance atmospheric electronics, musique concrète, and studio layering, in an imaginative and introspective journey through Opanasiuk's unique sonic palette."

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This album is about sound exploration, playfulness, surprises and discoveries. It is a product of improvisation using modular synthesizers and an experimental approach to composition.

It all started with long hours of playing on my eurorack modular system, combining samples and electronic sounds. The process was completely intuitive, where I avoided any guesswork and just went with the flow, in the spirit of free improvisation. When I later analyzed these recordings, I was surprised to find many inspiring passages and ideas that I would never have come up with deliberately. It seemed that there were sound worlds that spontaneously appeared out of nothing, and I was going to explore them. That's how the idea for the record came about, not from an overarching musical concept, but from the sound itself.

The next stage was a long and meticulous compositional process in which I combined all the parts of the live sessions together and created connecting sections, often by transforming the sound material. During this process, I pretended that I was not creating these pieces, but rather that I was a pioneer on some kind of exploratory expedition to unknown sound worlds. I let the sound lead me, looking for elements that could influence a new section, like hidden dimensions in sound that reveal themselves. My goal was to create interesting narratives for the listener, to make their imaginary journeys as engaging as my composing process.

When I was composing a new part, I often used modular synthesizers again to create sounds and then brought them back to the DAW for editing to keep the elements of playfulness and unpredictability. In fact, a lot of new material and even entire new compositions were created in this way, but I often returned to the original sessions for inspiration, especially when I had writer's block.

Sometimes, when I had doubts about certain sections and wanted to go a step further in this game of removing the composer's ego from the process, I would turn to my electroacoustic composition teacher, Yannis Patoukas, and ask him to make some suggestions. I am very grateful for his input and support during the creation of these tracks.

I invited Evan Crankshaw to collaborate on the album cover artwork. Interestingly, Evan initially chose a variety of elements for his cover idea, but the original images he cut them from fell into a pile that began to suggest a new composition that eventually became the cover. Thus, it brought another spontaneous dimension to the visual aspect of the album.

Record label based in Wroclaw.

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