- LP: Includes download, Ltd. to 300 copies, powder blue vinyl, heavy, pocket-flooded gatefold jacket, incl. digital Bonus Track
Via Negativa is the first solo album for Utech Records by visual artist and Locrian member, Terence Hannum. Incorporating voice and organ, Hannum creates a world where time slows and sound is reduced to the steady pulse of the universe.
Via Negativa is latin for negative path. It is a means of distillation. A way of describing something by saying what it is not.
You might say that ambient music is the music of subtraction – subtract the melody, subtract the harmony, subtract the rhythm. Subtract the author. Where much of music composition is a process of layered construction, ambient composition is closer to that of distillation – find the essential ingredient that will fundamentally transform a sonic environment and dispense with the rest. Recorded in Hannum’s basement studio with the most basic equipment, Via Negativa is a document of the artist’s own meditative process of subtraction.
Via Negativa is latin for negative path. It is a means of distillation. A way of describing something by saying what it is not.
You might say that ambient music is the music of subtraction – subtract the melody, subtract the harmony, subtract the rhythm. Subtract the author. Where much of music composition is a process of layered construction, ambient composition is closer to that of distillation – find the essential ingredient that will fundamentally transform a sonic environment and dispense with the rest. Recorded in Hannum’s basement studio with the most basic equipment, Via Negativa is a document of the artist’s own meditative process of subtraction.
Terence Hannum: Via Negativa
Become More, Become Less
Terence Hannum
If Only You Knew What Darkness I am Plunged Into
Terence Hannum
Unapproachable Light
Terence Hannum
The Ideal Forms
Terence Hannum
