Wave Memory 2: Clearlight, plastic by Celestial Messenger
Infinite Version - 2024

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Unzip and run the app. Windows, double-click the "exe" file, Mac, double-click the "app" file. 

Mac users, the first time you run the app you will need to right-click or control-click on the app, choose 'Open' from the menu, then click Open in the dialog that appears. It's perfectly safe, it is part of Apple's security protocol for apps that have not been downloaded from the official Apple app store.

This version composes and performs the piece live in real-time, infinitely until you quit the app (quit by command-Q or choosing Quit from the menu). 

Liner Notes:

Wave Memory by Celestial Messenger

Three different immersions in the same sonic material, each progressively deeper into a dream state. Calming and concentraing. Rather than songs that go from start to end, these are sound environments to immerse in - leave them on, you'll forget they're on. When you remember, either turn them off or leave them on. They go like this:

"Wave Memory 1: Ultraspa, eraser" is a spa for the ears and mind, erasing the noise. Known to put babies to sleep, and everyone else in a place they might like to be. Part 1 in the journey into dreams, musically this maintains the logic of the world, using equal temperament and conventionally pleasing intervals, easing in.

"Wave Memory 2: Clearlight, plastic", who remembers clearlight? Dreams are only really experienced as memories. Plastic sounds, ever mellower, but so clear. That phase of sleep where it all makes so much sense, but it's really ridiculous. Musically, Part 2 reflects this, with the bells (the sounds from Part 1, effected) playing microtones while the chords (also the same sounds) play equal temperament, an anchor to the real world. You can download a self-playing 'infinite' version of Wave Memory 2 from our website.

"Wave Memory 3: Buried, very deep" is immersed deep, deep into the dreamworld, with no trace of the waking state. A massive journey in very low frequencies, you'll need headphones. Bass and sub-bass sounds (the same sounds from Part 1, effected) playing microtones, chords, moving around the stereo field, and with reverb - all things recording theory says you must not do with bass. But in dreams, anything is possible and this is a deep dream.You can download a self-playing 'infinite' version of Wave Memory 3 from our website.

The immersive virtual environments we built to play these pieces are inspired by the pre-digital Pachinko machines of Japan, the myriad self-playing music machines of the Fluxus artist Joe Jones, the Musical Tower installed in the Eames Office, Wind Chimes and Aeolian Harps.
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Composed, programmed, performed and recorded by Celestial Messenger on the land and waters of the Girai Wurrung people of the Eastern Maar nation. Always was, always will be.

Dedicated to all migrants, immigrants and refugees, everywhere in the world.

Released October 4th, 2024
