Name: Selene
Brand: Akira Kosemura, Lawrence English

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375 Media

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9999

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Limited edition

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Black

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Extended format: No

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Release date

2024-05-31

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TRR428LP

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0656605442815

Black LP

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White

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TRR428LPC1

0656605442846

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TRR428CD

0656605442822

Artist

Akira Kosemura

Lawrence English

Label EU

Temporary Residence Ltd.

Genre EU

Modern Composition

Lawrence English is an artist, composer and curator based in Australia. His work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He utilizes visceral live performance and site-specific installation to create work that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment. Over the past decade, he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience.

In his gallery practice, many of *English’s* works draw on ideas of spatial field and relativity. His work Audition (2015) for the Asia Pacific Triennial utilizes massive acoustic mirrors within which a listener can greatly augment and amplify their capabilities as a listener.

As a composer, *English’s* 2014 album Wilderness Of Mirrors resonated strongly across Australia and the Northern Hemisphere. The album was widely praised for its provocative and individual voice in adventurous Australian music. His compositions blur the nature of acoustic and electronic sources, creating a relative sonic tabula rasa that allows listeners to freely interpret the music.

*English* has been actively involved in increasing recognition of sound as an art form within Australia through his record label Room40. He curates exhibitions showcasing international and Australian sound artists, including festivals such as Open Frame held annually in Sydney. Additionally, he works closely with musicians as a mentor while publishing essays on listening, perception, futuring ambient music, sustaining creative practices as an artist.

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The first collaboration from renowned artists and composers, Akira Kosemura (Japan) and Lawrence English (Australia).

Atmosphere and gravity lean into each other. They are simultaneously expansive, and anchoring. They hold us, and lend a sense of perspective. They provide a stability and a knowingness which is essential in the absolute, and yet we can’t help but find ourselves gazing upward, outward and reaching towards that which sits outside those things and ways we know.

Selene is a record about that this lingering desire for that which sits beyond. It is work that seeks new perspectives snatched from familiar vistas, and it meditates on that sense of anchor and perspective. The work is also a speculative hymn to the visions of the celestial zones that spill ever outward. These visions, once merely what we could perceive with the naked eye are now so much more. Our minds eye is fed in equal parts by radio telecopy, filmic dreams and fiction renders of a place most of us will never know first-hand. This recording ties into a linage that reaches back, while stretching forward. It is just one story of so many, told across places, across cultures, across generations. It sits in the in-between of before and after, and in that moment invites us to situate ourselves and lean into it

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Discover Selene by Lawrence English on vinyl from Temporary Residence Ltd. A collaborative masterpiece exploring atmosphere and gravity, reaching beyond familiar vistas.