A Point Between, by Floating Spectrum

A Point Between

by Floating Spectrum

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1.	The early green outburst 03:42	buy track
2.	Rising tide, nourished soil 05:10	buy track
3.	Inner island 05:05 video	buy track
4.	Falling apart on the dreary field 04:28	buy track
5.	Obscured moon 04:56	buy track
6.	Eruption 07:07
7.	Descent to the hadal zone 03:56	buy track

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Floating Spectrum is the moniker for Taiwan-born, Berlin-based composer and audio technologist, Mei-Fang Liau. Her debut album as Floating Spectrum, A Point Between – crafted from a combination of synthesizers, everyday household objects, and unique software synthesizers made by Liau herself – is truly a sound and vision unlike any other.

Originally inspired by a dance performance for which Mei-Fang Liau created audio works that explored the recurring cycles of nature – how life emerges, flourishes and eventually decays, and metaphorically, how human emotions are associated with these ever-changing phases. That performance yielded two pieces that would eventually become the roots of A Point Between. To complete the album, Liau relied heavily on a self-made, fractal-inspired software synthesizer called Polyphylla, which simulates the way in which nature creates very complex and organic forms just by repeating slight variations of a simple form. It allowed Liau to create slowly evolving textures and sounds with complex dynamics, and thus the driving influence for the whole of A Point Between. The lone outlier is “Eruption,” for which Liau built a generative sound system that turns visual data into sound. In this hybrid system, sensitively fluctuating analog signals, fine-tuned data analysis, and human intuition perform together as one coherent living being.

The technological marvels of Floating Spectrum are, of course, uniquely impressive. But the more astonishing and intangible triumph of A Point Between is its singular ability to collect and shape such abstract sonic organisms into richly textured, immersive works of art. It’s that profound resonance that makes A Point Between such an uncanny work of emotional and structural depth.

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released September 20, 2019

Mastered by Lupo at Calyx Mastering
Artwork by Abe Pazos. Design by Federico Basile
Portrait photography by Victor Luque

Special thanks to Brit Schjeide, Christina Vantzou, Dean Berlinerblau, Everybody@TRL, Hyphen Lu, James Welburn, Lacuna Lab, Ran Ancor

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