Radionics Radio: An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies - COMPACT DISCS

Title: An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies
Artist: Radionics Radio
Label: Sub Rosa
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5411867114239
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2016-09-16
Number of Discs: 1

Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of radionics, with it's invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems. Radionics's idea that thoughts can be represented as frequencies is vigorously explored on An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies through microtonal compositions which range from mutating drones to electronic sambas, with nods to Raymond Scott and Daphne Oram along the way. In 1962, Oxford's Delawarr Laboratories built their groundbreaking multi-oscillator instrument comprising multiple electronic tone generators. The multi-oscillator was the summation of all Delawarr Laboratories's acoustical research into radionics. It was a strange instrument far ahead of it's time. In a process best described as "dowsing with oscillators," the unorthodox device was employed intuitively to select clusters of frequencies that embodied thoughts, ailments or concepts. The Laboratory submitted an application to broadcast the resulting thought-frequency tones over the radio, but were denied a broadcasting license. In 2014, Resonance FM's Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence Daniel Wilson launched Radionics Radio. Through an online app replicating Delawarr's multi-oscillator, users submitted their own thoughts and frequencies for radio broadcast. Along with a dozen original works, an exclusive 1968 tape recording of the original multi-oscillator is also featured on this CD. Daniel Wilson, who records under the alias Meadow House and performs in electroacoustic quartet Oscillatorial Binnage, has long been interested in composing with found physical objects and working within the restrictive tunings offered by those objects. Radionics Radio is an extension of this: the submitted thought-frequencies are themselves "found objects", each with their own unique harmonic worlds. All sounds heard in the Radionics Radio compositions are strictly derived only from the respective submitted thought-frequencies. This is an album unlike any other, and, if radionic theory is to be believed, one that contains more than the sum of it's parts.

Tracks:
1.1 Heal Chakras
1.2 Peter Send Me Money So I Can Fix the Boat You Promised
1.3 The Magician's Apprentice
1.4 Wonderful Feelings - Owning 3 Pots
1.5 The Rogelio Frequencies
1.6 Our Westchester Pizzeria Is a Huge Success
1.7 Release the Imprint of Club Music - Love Letter - Love
1.8 Delawarr Multi-Oscillator Experiment Summary (C. 1968)
1.9 Social Media ("More Friends")
1.10 Herpes
1.11 Caitline Rose Snider in Love with Victory
1.12 Mood
1.13 Clear Up Schistrosome Blood Fluke Worms and All Other Parasites

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