The God Particle

by Ümlaut

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1.	The God Particle 03:20	buy track
2.	Lumières électriques 04:08	buy track
3.	A different mechanism 04:04	buy track
4.	Liquere 06:08	buy track
5.	Born from the decay 04:12	buy track
6.	Energies and momenta 06:22	buy track
7.	Bottom quark 04:02	buy track
8.	Spin-parity 06:06	buy track
9.	Angular momentum 05:02	buy track
10.	The observed invariant mass 06:00	buy track
11.	Purely hypothetical 03:58	buy track
12.	Standard model predictions 07:12	buy track

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The seed for "The God Particle" album was planted back in 2012 when a subatomic particle was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs boson (called the “God particle”) is the particle associated with the Higgs field, an energy field that transmits mass to the things that travel through it. Peter Higgs and Francois Englert theorized way back in 1964 that this is how things in the universe – stars, planets, even people – came to have mass. At the same time I was reading "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras" by Sri Swami Satchidananda. I saw a parallel as it was describing how, with the quintessential concentration of mind (saṁyamḥ), you could dive deeply into an object or idea to release its secrets. Scientists have been using the same concentration method on the atomic particles, gaining knowledge as the particles released their energy, discovering their truth. Patanjali describes how saṁyama (the practice of dhāraṇā, dhyāna and samādhi) is usually done on one object or idea to uncover their secrets. These results or hidden secrets are called siddhis or vibhūti. I focused on the exploration and adaptation of these concepts to uncover them within my world of sound. — Jeff Düngfelder

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released May 20, 2021

Music composed & constructed by Jeff Düngfelder
Mixed & Mastered at the Georgian Gardens Studio, New York City

Jeff Düngfelder: electronics, field recordings and noise

Photography & Design by Jeff Düngfelder

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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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