"music* *?"

by Ben Glas

"music* *?" cover art

On his Room40 debut, Ben Glas presents a deeply minimalist and conceptual work of drone music. The album, provocatively titled '"music* *?"', explores the fundamental properties of sound through slowly evolving, immersive textures. Using a focused palette of processed instrumentation, Glas creates a hypnotic and meditative listening experience that challenges perceptions of music and silence, inviting the listener into a space of deep concentration and sonic detail.

Genres

  • Drone

Tracklist

  1. silence (1 whole minute alone with your thoughts)
  2. a series of relativistic waves (hello)
  3. silence (in the trough of a wave)
  4. (heads up) pinprick & remembering
  5. silence (aging and hearing loss - 21kHz)
  6. cochlear sing-along-song #1 (ear hear, ear do)
  7. silence (8 notes in a drawn out memory)
  8. a polytemporal clock (spatio-polyrhythmic breathing room)
  9. silence (the sound of a tree falling in a forest)
  10. music for listeners #2 (latent meaning on the human scale)
  11. silence (temporary agency)
  12. cochlear sing-along-song #2 (the melody is between notes, between the two tones)
  13. silence (hidden music)
  14. cochlear sing-along-song #3 (a traversable field of otoacoustic possibilities)
  15. silence (no sound, no air - noumena for the living)
  16. a series of relativistic waves (byebye)
  17. (unlisted bonus) secret legal silence (lmy&mz + bg)