Embodied Sound / Architecture — 2023—
SOMA
Sound for the body that remembers. Brutalism, breath, and the architecture of feeling.
Manifesto — On SOMA
SOMA begins with a question the rest of the universe takes for granted: where does the body end and the room begin?
Recorded inside cooling-tower stairwells, post-war chapels, and the bare concrete shells of unfinished apartment blocks, SOMA treats architecture as instrument. The reverb is not a plug-in. The reverb is the city. The body listening is part of the composition.
Where Syntax of Paradox lives behind masks, SOMA refuses them. There is skin here. Breath. The small involuntary sound a chest makes before a sentence. The project's interest is interoceptive — the slow, often illegible weather of feeling — and its sound design is built to be felt before it is parsed.
These are not ambient records. They are rooms you stand inside.
“The body is the only room we cannot leave. Tune it carefully.”
Sonic DNA
- Genre
- Drone / contemporary classical / somatic ambient
- Tempo
- Sub-60 BPM. Often pulseless.
- Atmosphere
- Cold concrete warmed by a single body.
- Emotional Territory
- The relief of being inside something larger than you.
- Listening Experience
- Best in the dark, lying down, with the chest unguarded.
Visual DNA
- Palette
- Wet concrete, slate, the pale grey of overcast skylights.
- Imagery
- Stairwells, load-bearing walls, the seam where ceiling meets shadow.
- Recurring Symbols
- The pillar, the lung, the doorway, the bare bulb.
- References
- Tadao Ando, Eliasson, Hilma af Klint, Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock.
Core Themes
- embodiment
- sensation
- interiority
- brutalism
- memory of bodies
- presence
- breath
Audience Profile
Listeners who keep Stars of the Lid, Sarah Davachi and Caterina Barbieri on heavy rotation. Architects, somatic practitioners, anyone whose calmest hour is inside an empty cathedral.
Discography
- Soma I — Stairwell Studies2023
- Long Rooms2024
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Press Description
SOMA is an embodied sound project recorded inside the brutalist interior — stairwells, chapels, abandoned civic spaces — using architecture as instrument. The work sits between contemporary classical, drone and somatic practice, treating the listening body as the final piece of the composition.
Sister Identities
- Field Recording / Longing
Return State
Music for the long way home. Distance, absence, and the slow gravity of return.
- Dissolution / Long Form
Syntax of the Void
Music for the moment the self lets go. Dissolution, surrender, ego death.
- Classical Reimagining / Time
Syntax of the Eternal
The classical canon overheard from a far room. Timelessness as method.
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