Cursus, by Nemeton

Cursus

by Nemeton

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	1.	Cursus part 1 37:05	info	buy track
	2.	Cursus part 2 25:44		buy track

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The Dorset cursus is the largest neolithic feature in northern Europe, stretching for more than 10 km over a chalk land landscape in southern England. Constructed over 5000 years ago, its purpose remains enigmatic, but it is believed to have been used as a processionary route for the dead. It is aligned so that the sun sets behind the terminal long barrow at the winter solstice, when the souls of the departed were perhaps taken by the setting sun to the underworld.

This piece was produced as the soundtrack to a video of the cursus filmed in winter, at dusk, in foggy conditions. Field recordings made during filming were combined with other found sounds, including those generated by flints collected from both of the terminal long barrows of the cursus. Other sound sources included improvised performances using acoustic instruments, which were electronically processed to create a series of evolving textures. The piece is structured to evoke ritualistic movement across the landscape, the features of which are successively revealed and obscured during the traverse. In this way the composition explores the loss and evolution of meaning through the passage of time.

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released April 28, 2017

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Nemeton England, UK

Experimental ambient investigations into deep ecology

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Exhalations

Jul 2021
Mantra for a falling leaf

Oct 2020
Lifeforms in the invisible world

Oct 2020
Deep time

Oct 2020
Ocean of plasticity

May 2018
Cursus

Apr 2017
All trees are clocks

Oct 2016
Unmotion

Mar 2016
N/um

Aug 2015
Cyniver

Apr 2015
Anima

May 2014
Organic

Mar 2014

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