Half the Speed of Light

by Ümlaut

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1.	The integrity of the gesture was lost 07:10	buy track
2.	I Sing The Ice Electric 06:36	buy track
3.	Algebra applies to the clouds 04:44	buy track
4.	Across the Ether 05:37	buy track
5.	Half the Speed of Light 06:54	buy track
6.	Bridge of Sighs 06:06	buy track
7.	stars rain sun moon 04:16	buy track
8.	Trans-Manchurian Express 05:22	buy track
9.	Der Orangengarten 06:02	buy track
10.	A few simple rules 04:22	buy track
11.	Their Sins Run Deep 06:22	buy track
12.	The fiction we have become 04:15	buy track
13.	Al Bujairi 05:10	buy track
14.	Quantenphysik 04:28	buy track

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“Half the Speed of Light” reimagines and assimilates, in intricate detail, field recordings sampled from across the globe and beyond. It is a meticulously crafted tone poem of otherworldly ambience. In fourteen tracks, Düngfelder probes the covert bond between slowness and the intensity of memory; and between speed and the intensity of forgetting. The album never approaches the listener directly. Instead, it enters through the side door of memory. The continual disassembling and reassembling of myriad sounds, of abstraction and randomization, builds a momentum that never sacrifices its icy groove. The pace is glacial, but deceptively so. There is a lot going on here. Subtle frequency modulation and ghostly ambience artfully interplay with harmonic sensibilities. Simple melodies juxtapose with offbeat alterations in texture. Percussive and rhythmic sequencing, at times, gives way to a total abandonment of rhythm. Sparse, yet bewitching, the sound palette throughout “Half the Speed of Light” plays like a subconscious melody. Bleak, noir-ish and atmospheric. It is a product of passion, artistry and of curiosity. And a very compelling and emotional experience.

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released December 20, 2023

Recorded in New York & Connecticut 2019-2023
Music composed & constructed by Jeff Düngfelder
Mixed & Mastered at the Hopmeadow Studio, Weatogue, Connecticut

Jeff Düngfelder: electronics, field recordings and noise

Design by Jeff Düngfelder

www.umlaut.work

VIDEOS:
Quantenphysik - vimeo.com/896210243
Their Sins Run Deep - vimeo.com/896895046
stars rain sun moon - vimeo.com/897249836

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Ümlaut Simsbury, Connecticut

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence. ... more

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