Stadiums & Shrines

“Surroundings may at first appear normal, and the patient may gradually become aware of something uncanny in the atmosphere.[…] Everything gets a new meaning. The environment is somehow different—not to a gross degree—perception is unaltered in itself but there is some change which envelops everything with a subtle, pervasive and strangely uncertain light.[…] Something seems in the air which one cannot account for…” – False awakening, a vivid dream about waking up.

Created by Celeste Byers for San Francisco’s Disappearing People.

The 15 chemically burnt minutes below (from which the video pulls) will appear on a future cassette.

 

Had that weightless drift continued, “she wrote the verse, to all of his dreams” would have echoed into frame, followed by a bolt of strings—and who knows how the heavens would’ve reacted. Luckily, the entire motion exists below; it’s just a matter of hearing (and seeing) it through:

Oliver Tank | Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion

Sydney’s Oliver Tank is currently moving about the sphere (much thanks to East to West and Flashlight Tag) and has a proper release in the works with Yes Please Records.

 

The bow, on the continent, holding the spout, shooting the water, over the rocks, into the white… the Wall-made piece above is laced with pliable concepts, much like his code below:

Noah Wall | 4AR

If I listened long enough to you I’d find a way to believe it’s all true…

Words lifted from “Reason To Believe”, dropped into 4AR (that’s For Arthur Russell), threaded with hot laser, and spun by kinetic fuzz. It’s just one twelfth of Hèloïse, a colorful homage to Noah’s mother, Hèloïse Wall.

The Crash Symbols (cassette) / Dracula Horse (digital) / Castellers (LP) is available as of today. And those Mind Games should be played forever:

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