What Happens At Night

by Jana Irmert

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mikehoolboom Poised and precise, filled with deep tremours, delicate hydrophone recordings and emotive drones, these four miniature suites offer a masterclass in digital composition. Favorite track: Particles.

Acoustic Ecologist My Thoughts While Listening to
What Happens At Night

You are small.
In space. In time.
Unfettered,
By your own demise.
There be giants,
Beyond your view.
A googol times
The size of little old you.
Take comfort in
Your ability
To never matter
In perpetuity.
Listen to the drum
Of your inner ear,
For only it
Has nothing to fear.

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1.	Particles 08:41	buy track
2.	Ashes 03:12	buy track
3.	Dust Is The Rust Of Time 08:07	buy track
4.	Stratum 07:26	buy track

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Seismic vibrations alter the ever-changing sonic surfaces of Jana Irmert's new release What Happens At Night. Like layers of sediment, sounds are being pushed up from underneath, floating away or sinking back to the bottom.

At the core of the album lies a question: What will be left of us? While Earth melts, we go on. But eventually, there will be a point in the future when all that is left of humankind will be a thin layer in rock. While this may seem like a deeply gloomy view, it also carries a great deal of comfort: to remember being just a small particle in a vast system, so vast we will never be able to fully grasp it.

Aritst Notes:

"When playing or improvising, it sometimes happens that time kind of stops its usual pace - measures of moments and durations get blurry. Smashing and rubbing lava stones, layering and bending sounds and field recordings until what I heard matched the images of strata in rock I was looking at: millenia of existence and non-existence, on a planet to which we are a very recent addition. I fell out of time, somewhere between the moment and eternity, and this was a feeling I wanted to capture on What Happens At Night."

credits

released April 29, 2022

All tracks produced and mixed by Jana Irmert
mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering Berlin
Cut by Jana Falcon at Schnittstelle
Design by Louise Mason / Sawn Off
Cover Photography by Maria Louceiro
℗ & © 2022 Fabrique Records, LC-12713
Cat. No.: FAB097

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

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Jana Irmert Berlin, Germany

Berlin based sound artist and composer.

discography

Time Piece

Jun 2023
What Happens At Night

Apr 2022
The Soft Bit

Jun 2021
Everything minus all

Jun 2020
Cusp

Jan 2020
FLOOD

Jul 2018
End of Absence

Oct 2016

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