Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze (2007)

Glacial dark ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates.

The polar regions are awe-inspiring environments of inhospitable minimalism, and at the same time there's a beautiful serenity to be found in their uncharted bleakness as well. There's a powerful purity and a timelessness to be found there: snow which has lain un-trampled for millennia and ice which formed eons ago; mountain ranges and deserts and rivers to be found if you look. Here deep, resonant, abyss-like tones shine forth from icy chasms below as whiteout blasts across a vast and largely uncharted expanse of emptiness above.

There is a certain comforting warmth in the encroaching slumber of hypothermia.

SleepResearch_Facility explores notions of awareness and perception in the sub/unconcious listener. Focusing primarily on sound bereft of rhythm based energies, SRF(acility)'s goal is to provide listening environments wherein the music simply adds texture to the silence. SRF entertains the idea that music can forgot notions of compositional architecture, resulting in noise which draws attention away from itself, leaving room for the listener to focus on other things (or, focus on nothing at all). SRF puts emphasis on these aesthetics in the search for a kind of "play me quiet" sound suitable for listening to actively or passively depending on circumstances, creating an aural experience which guides the mind through gentle misdirection rather than forcing its attention, allowing listeners to drift in their own diversified thoughts.


Tracklist:

01. 79° S 83° W
02. 72° S 149° E
03. 82° S 62° E
04. 86° S 115° W
05. 80° S 96° E

Click above track 2 and 3 for album sampler.