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Oceans on Azimuth

by Lola de la Mata

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited to 250 Copies Pressed on Ultra Clear + Risograph Printed Poem Insert

    Includes digital pre-order of Oceans on Azimuth. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 8, 2024
    edition of 250 
    Purchasable with gift card

      £27 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Oceans on Azimuth. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 8, 2024

      £9 GBP  or more

     

1.
Left Ear
2.
KOH - Klee - uh 06:46
3.
Stereocilia 05:15 video
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4.
Calibration God
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Earthworms
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Right Ear
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Timbral Mirrors
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PINK noise 05:05 video
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9.
Wetware [KOH - Klee - uh remix]
10.
Pearl Reservoir
11.
Whorling

about

Experimental composer Lola de la Mata announces her debut limited artist edition LP and digital release Oceans on Azimuth, an auditory exploration of tinnitus, scheduled for May 8th.

As a violinist, she was told to give up her musicianship after becoming afflicted by severe tinnitus and vertigo in 2019. Instead, she chose to listen with a new ear, and reached out to A.J. Hudspeth in New York who runs the sensory cell lab where they study the cochlea. There, she found collaborators in biophysicists who offered her the unique experience of recording her tinnitus.

Lola’s new compositions feature sonic landscapes crafted from throbbing heartbeats and tinnitus phantoms reimagined through metal, glass, ceramic and ice musical instruments. Inspired by forms from the middle and inner ear, these prototypes introduced unique timbres and tonalities, enriched with noise from their carved imperfections.

Translated forms of hearing and listening are explored throughout the project in collaged poems which ricochet amongst field recordings, prepared string instruments, a Claravox theremin, an ear canal shaped gong, and other inventions.

Each instrumental choice is a specified act, one folding us into the project as a way of offering space for new conversations around hearing diversity with musicians and audiences.

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releases May 8, 2024

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CREDITS

All Compositions - Lola de la Mata

Concept, Written, Performed, Recorded, Lyrics (Stereocilia), Text (Pearl Reservoir) - Lola de la Mata

SOAEs (Left Ear / Right Ear) Recordings - Brian Anthony Fabella, Research Specialist, The Hudspeth Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience

Interview (Calibration God) - Francesco Gianoli, Biophysicist, Hudspeth Lab

Voice and Lyrics (Pink Noise) - Lana Norris, Musicology Resident, Hudspeth Lab

Custom Ear Canal Gong and Triangles made by - Matt Nolan

Additional Instruments:
(Earthworms) - Gwen Reed, Double Bass
(KOH - Klee - uh) - Marianne Schofield, Double Bass + Joby Burgess, Canna Sonora

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Mixing - Lola de la Mata
Additional Mixing / Mastering - Andrew Larrabee
Cut by - Cicely Balston at Air Studios

Engineer - All Instruments (Earthworms), Violin (Pink Noise) - Eve Morris

Made with support from Arts Council England and Help Musicians

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Special Thanks to A. J. Hudspeth, Lotti V Closs and Adam James Sinclair

Dedicated to, Mira Calix and Anneka Swann
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© all rights reserved, 2024

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Lola de la Mata London, UK

Lola de la Mata,

composer / performer (violin voice, theremin) with a background in weaving, printmaking and Labanotation.

PhD research around Tinnitus & Maryanne Amacher


SHOWS

April 5th
Fluid Studio
Liverpool, UK

May 15th
Stephen Lawrence Gallery
London, UK

June 27th
WORM
Rotterdam, NL ... more

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