Joshua Abrams

Joshua Abrams’ Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation is a single, thirty-five-minute swathe of all-enveloping, slow-moving minimalism. Originally a score for Lisa Alvarado’s multidisciplinary installation at REDCAT, CalArts, the album tracks a semi-fluid path, advancing like cooling lava — a matrix of abundant and not always predictable intersections, there to be explored, to inspire fierce thought, but also to luxuriate in or meditate on.

Chicago composer Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society) has announced Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation, out March 27 on Drag City. Originally written for Lisa Alvarado’s REDCAT exhibition, the 35-minute composition for violas, harmonium, and electronics explores “Nepantla”—a transformative space between the conscious and unconscious. Abrams has shared a music video for the new single edit, “Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation (brief immersion).”

Ten years on, Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas reunite for their second collaborative album, ‘Totality’. Their first single, Clock no Clock, is accompanied by a music video created by Nick Contea.

Mind Maintenance is less about its individual tracks as it is about being a continual, looping listening experience. There is something wholly magnetising about this rare music and its insistently repetitive nature that is hard to switch from. Enchanting, exciting, beautifully performed music.