Weekly Update: 24 September 2023

STAR'S END Update 24 September 2023
Calling forth yet another reality in need of testing Forrest Fang has realized The Oort Cloud Meditations (69'29"). Any compositional motion in this music comes, not from the notes on the staff, but by subtle shifts in timbre - leaving listeners to go everywhere the richness of sound may take them. Off on a wander charting our inner realm we encounter an incomparable sense of possibility. Seeking newness and otherness Fang's five meditative exercises in fragility will be found captivating and challenging in equal measure. With no specific or known point in the rhythm - like a continual and electric sensation - one must listen to each entire piece to realize that, even as they change the totality of these electronic arrangements are constant. With all the suggestions of scale removed we are lifted into free, infinite space. The atmosphere of expectancy enlarges, distending under pressure from within, then rests amidst ethereal resonances beneath a tenuous stability. The placid mood breathes and lightens, while the ringing and humming of Fang's coalescing drones interact with themselves. In this liminal aural realm the mind must give meaning to the music - making connections that cannot be traced in the lab. The Oort Cloud Meditations is a pure experience. Throughout the moody flow of flaring, fading textures and interplanetary ambiance, notes and tones progress in slow motion flight along quietly curving contours - such a subliminal, minimal response to the unknown wants of the cosmos. Please tune in to the 09.24.23 broadcast of STAR'S END Ambient Radio for new music from The Oort Cloud Meditations by Forrest Fang For more on The Oort Cloud Meditations, please access: www.projekt.com Additional Content: Forever Cascades (2021) by Forrest Fang The Lost Seasons of Amorphia (2022) by Forrest Fang Unbound (2011) by Sans Serif More STAR'S END Reviews
Ian Boddy - Live on STAR'S END 22 October 2023
Heading towards the poetic world of memory and imagination Ian Boddy harnesses the power of his synthesizers and ably delivers his music. His concerts feel organic, never schematic, flawlessly flowing across a fascinating range of textures and moods. In possession of an electrified core - enchanting on its own terms - Boddy manages to fuse a stylistically progressive arrangement and cosmic music atmosphere. Providing a comfortable feel amidst neat beats and pulsing sequencer patterns his music modulates between fearsome acceleration and a breathtaking stillness. Following his performance at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia Ian Boddy returns to Star's End Ambient Radio with a live-to-air concert on the broadcast of 22 October 2023. Thanks for tuning in! To set a reminder and/or join the 22 October 2023 live stream, please click here : :
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September 2023 Top 40 STAR'S END Releases - Alphabetical
Artist - Album (Label) Aduantas - D'imigh An Imni Ar Fad Diom Gan Mhoill (self released) Aarktica - Morning One (Projekt) David Arkenstone - Winterlude (QDV) Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo (Light Years) Chohori - Minor Green (Modularfield) Chronotope Project - Chronology (Spotted Peccary) comfortLevel7 - Mercurial (Simulacra Records) Blanco Decazador - Reworks LP (self released) Steve Dinsdale - A Cosmos of Sand (Northern Echo) Steve Dinsdale - Forgotten Not Gone (Northern Echo) Dronal - Whilst We Fall (Supple9) Paul Ellis - Panoramas 3 (Groove) Forrest Fang - The Oort Cloud Meditations (Projekt) Brian Fechino - Reflection Spaces vol 2 (Heart Dance) Field Lines Cartographer - Phases of This and Other Moons (Castles in Space) Christian Fiesel - Suspended Life (Cyclical Dreams) Fred Again/Brian Eno - Secret Life (Text) Robert Hakalski - Twelve Planes for the Paper Pilot (Singularity) Janne Hanhisuanto - Are We There Yet (self released) Hessien - The Alchemist (Sound in Silence) An Imaginal Space - Souvenir (self released) Lisa Bella Donna - Electronic Voyages (Behind the Sky) Federico Mosconi - Nocturnal (Dronarivm) Carlos Nino & Friends - I'm Just Chillin on Fire (International Anthem) Perge - Void Coefficient (self released) Wayne Phoenix - Soaring (Halcyon Veil) Polypores - Multizone Mindscrabble (DiN) Aria Rostami - Siren (Dronarivm) Christina Ruf - Outermost (Iapetus Media) Mario Schoenwalder - The Eye of the Chameleon (MiG) Matthew Shipp - The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala) Solitaire - Plains and Skies (Projekt) The Soviet Space Dog Project - Mindful Orbiting (self release) Saul Stokes - Magnetic (self released) Martin Sturtzer - Circular Oscillations (self released) Christian Wittman - Orpheus (self released) Bernhard Wostheinrich - Live in Philadelphia 2023 (Iapetus Media) Yellow6 - Civil Twilight (Sound in Silence) Various Artists - Berlin: A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve (self released) Various Artists - Gemstones IV (Cyclical Dreams)
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Access the Concerts page for more about live on-air in-studio STAR'S END radio recitals . Coming Up : Live on STAR'S END KiloWatts: 29 January 2023 Saul Stokes: 23 April 2023 Jeff Pearce: 14 May 2023 Jaymie Rose Hennegan: 4 June 2023 Jeff Cain & Nick Tannen: 6 August 2023 Ian Boddy: 22 October 2023 Back in Time 2023 (all-nighter): 5 November 2023 AirSculpture: 19 November 2023 . Please Check Back for Updates! .
Website Pages Updated/Added 09.22.23 The Oort Cloud Meditations (2023) 09.14.23 Panoramas 3 (2022) 09.07.23 Berlin - A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve (2023) 09.01.23 Gwynedd (2023) 08.31.23 76:14 (1994/2023) 08.24.23 Foundation (2023) 08.17.23 Grand Tour of the Pleiades (2023) 08.10.23 The Second Foundation (2023) 08.04.23 Passages (2023) 07.27.23 Dividuum (2023) 07.20.23 arp-en-ciel (2023) 07.13.23 Sadhana (2023) 07.07.23 Cosmic Echo (2023) 06.29.23 China (1979) 06.22.23 Into the Quiet (2023) 06.15.23 Tractatus Lyra Organismus (2023) 06.08.23 The Zone of Malleable Fears (2023) 06.01.23 Private Earth (2023) 05.25.23 Encore (1977) 05.18.23 Modulations III (2023) 05.11.23 Path to Returning (2020) 05.04.23 Travelers' Cloth (2023) 04.27.23 Colours of Air (2023) 04.20.23 Live on Star's End 01.29.2023 (2023) 04.13.23 Cause and Effect (2023) 04.06.23 Entropy (2023) 03.30.23 A Thousand Year Flood (2023) 03.23.23 Singularity (2023) 03.16.23 Live on Star's End 2021-2022 (2023) 03.09.23 Rest of Life (2023) 03.02.23 Elysian Lightships (2023) 02.23.23 The Extragalactic Sessions 4 (2022) 02.16.23 2023 Fundraiser 02.09.23 The Shape of Time (2023) 02.02.23 Weathering the Storm (2023) 01.26.23 Music for Unknown Worlds I II III (2022) 01.19.23 The Forest Abides (2022) 01.12.23 The City and the Stars (2022) 01.05.23 Dear Unknown (2022) 12.31.22 2022 in Review 12.29.22 Music for Stargazing Vol One & Two (2022) 12.15.22 Five Bliss Machines on the Infinite Stage (2022) 12.08.22 Voices from the Ethereal Forest (2022) 11.17.22 Music for Animals (2022) 11.10.22 The Lost Seasons of Amorphia (2022) 10.27.22 Minor Deities (2022) 10.20.22 Chaos in Premonition (2022) 10.13.22 Coil (2022) 10.06.22 Spirit Exit (2022) 09.29.22 For Sundays When It Rains (2022) 09.22.22 Isolate (2022) 09.15.22 the storm before the calm (2022) 09.08.22 Revolve (2022) 08.25.22 happy days are here to stay (2022) 08.25.22 Inversions (2022) 08.18.22 When You Are (2022) 08.11.22 Elemental Temple Pt 1 (2022) 08.04.22 Skyspace (2022) 08.04.22 What Remains (2022) 07.28.22 Atmanaut (2018/2022) 07.21.22 Epsilon Eridani (2022) 07.14.22 The Homeland of Electricity (2022) 07.07.22 Deus Arrakis (2022) 06.30.22 The Starting Errors (2022) 06.23.22 Houses of the Wind (2022) 06.16.22 Private Sea (2022) 06.09.22 Aqueduct (2022) 06.02.22 Mundus in Motu (2022) 05.26.22 Pilgrimage (2022) 05.19.22 Hyperincandescent (2022) 05.12.22 Cycles and Pulses (2022) 05.05.22 The Winter Wind (2022) added 04.28.22 Pulse Width (2022) added 04.21.22 In (2022) added 04.14.22 American Watercolors (2022) 03.31.22 Planetary Unfolding (2022) 02.05.21 The Gatherings 9 December 2021 (2022) added 03.17.22 Noctilucent (2022) 03.10.22 Protons and Neutrons (2022) 03.03.22 Descent (2022) 02.24.22 The Core (2022) 02.17.22 Fundraising Broadcast Notes 02.10.22 Discovery of Meaning (2022) 02.03.22 Sojourns (2022) 01.27.22 The Extragalactic Sessions Part 2 & 3 (2021) 01.20.22 Emerald Waters (2022) 01.13.22 Washed Ashore (2021) 01.06.22 Modulations II (2021)
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