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Immersed Sensibilities

by Antonina Car

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TheSlowMusicMovement Add some neoclassical elegance to your Sunday recreational activity of choice with the frankly stunning debut LP from Antonina Car for Time Released Sound. Leading with the violin she sets off through a series of gently experimental, unfailingly engaging arrangements that reveal her multi-instrumental prowess, a perfectly balanced compositional restlessness, bookish attention to sonic detail and if that wasn't enough a rare vocal quality and dexterity. Wonderful.
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1.
Emerging 01:33
2.
Fluid Matter 05:33
Splendid in the sea of fluid matter. I seek my waters as underneath they flow. Residues of drops carved a fractured gravel, A mineral that glistens breathing forms. Splendid in the sea of fluid matter. I seek my waters as underneath they flow. And when it all dissolves, shows duality, Of embodied structures full of liberation. And the water flows, whatever happens to earth. Is there any force stronger than this fearless route? And the water flows, whatever happens to earth.
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Entropy 04:55
4.
Sea Anemone 04:08
A sedentary creature. Taking its rank and color, Based on its dull sight. Simple critter, content in itself. Concealing tracks in ripples. Abiding in reclusion. With petals buried by thousands of years. Desolate, helpless waver spirit.
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if the sky suddenly collapsed? Birds uncontrollably nosedived, hit the ground like falling stones. Earth’s atmosphere collapsed. Did you know that the air itself weighs nearly 5 quadrillion tons? Atmosphere would suddenly disappear leaving no air on the planet. There would be complete silence, no sound would any longer exist. As the atmospheric pressure decreases, oceans would first boil and later freeze forever.
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Efflucence 03:43
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What leads me to astray my viewpoint? If it’s not possible to avoid delusions. How can one reflect if not in an immense state of solitude? Loneliness so all-encompassing it almost threatens to erase you.
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Reveries 04:25
Would you rather fall unconscious? Dozing I become oblivious again. Neither drowse nor being awake. How does one find the peace? Reminiscence strengthens the desire for what’s obsolete. Reveries as empty as words itself.
11.
Limen 05:11
Empathize the liminal space between things and actions. The glue between the intellect and spirit. A case in point. Embrace contradictions. Remain unformulated, put on hold the incarnate intentionality. Ambiguity is inflected by desire. Thoughts between polarities. Nothing’s dyad. In-between is amoral and ambivalent. What defines is allied to none. Yearning is the essence of presence. Being close but not quite present. Not yet fully aware of idea or sensation. Somewhere beyond the peripheral vision. On the tip of the tongue. Aspiring the engagement with the present. It could all tear apart with contentment. The collapse of the paradox means the end of ambivalence. Nothing more to yearn towards, all reduced by intellect to ordinary view. Captured sensation eviscerated from its vibrancy.

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“Phenomenons and events occurring in nature are the ultimate source of metaphors for every human condition. Nature perfectly shows us its strength and vulnerability, poetically flawless in its beauty and ferocity. Immersed Sensibilities is an attempt to transcribe feelings, stories, and events into a synthetic, self-contained sonic universe. It's a reflection of the
intensity with which humans often imagine their emotional presence matters.” - Antonina Car

Immersed Sensibilities is Antonina Car's debut LP album. Working on the album, the artist spent half a year in seclusion, in her home studio, composing and recording practically every day. That way, she could focus on ideas and experiment with all available resources. At first, the album was intended to be instrumental. During the composition process, the artist arranged subsequent layers of sound by humming, however, she began to perceive the voice as another instrument. Antonina used the violin, baritone violin, cello, keyboards, and synthesizers, recording all these instruments herself. The last track includes a flute and a clarinet played by a composer from Malaysia, Zurfahani Batrisya.

In the sounds, song titles, and original lyrics, the artist repeatedly refers to the idea of fluidity and ambivalence as a form of understanding and accepting transitional states in life. According to her, fervency is an emotional state that reflects the transfigurative character of nature. Antonina's works introduce the listener to a specific sonic "biosphere" in which we hear synthetic "beings", invented, and pictured by the imagination. The voice fragments are a reference to the listener's consciousness because the words are the only recognizable element - reminiscent of human reality.

The sounds in the tracks are electronically processed. Fragments that resemble field recordings (wind, thunder, rustling) are designed entirely digitally. The last piece on the album is a form of a manifesto. This is the only song in which the artist does not play string instruments. Instead, she focuses on the narrative, and this time a real field recording appears in the song - subtle footsteps on the forest ground. The song correlates with the artist's journey and it’s a form of a letter written to oneself. It combines a disorderly and uncertain beginning with a resolved yet subdued ending.

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released December 2, 2022

All music composed, played, recorded, and mixed by Antonina Car
Vocals and voice parts in tracks 2, 6, 8, 10, and 11 edited by Karol Wiśniewski
Instruments appearing in tracks consist of violin, baritone violin, cello, synthesizers, and keys
Track 11 “Limen” features flute and clarinet played by Zurfahani Batrisya
Album mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k
Artwork and package design by Colin Herrick
Time Released Sound 2022

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Antonina Car Gdynia, Poland

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Antonina Car is a young music artist from Poland. In her works, she focuses on recording acoustic instruments and processing their sounds electronically. She devotes most attention to string instruments. Her main area of interest is the design of sound structures, which she creatively combines with violin harmonies and improvisation. ... more

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