Long-play mix

Ancient Current

2 hr 1 min Mystical Chillout & New Age

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2 hr 1 min Mystical Chillout & New Age.

A long-play Signal Art set: original songs written and produced for one mood, scored to a single cinematic visual world. Watch it in full on YouTube.

Signal Art · A closer reading

An inheritance of gestures

Ancient Current looks for what endures in the way one person handles another.

A father lifting his chin for a son's razor reverses an old relationship without erasing it. Trust is present in the exposed throat and in the hand that remembers how gently to move. An ordinary task becomes a meeting between generations.

The celestial setting expands these domestic scenes without making them remote. The current that feels ancient may be neither doctrine nor destiny, but a practice of attention passed between imperfect people, renewed whenever someone chooses to be careful.

A question to carry: What gesture taught you the meaning of trust?

trust · inheritance · care

An interpretive reading from the Signal Art team, with AI assistance. This is one possible reading of the work.

Songs in this programme

  1. 0:00 Slower Than the Smallest Bubble (Part I)
  2. 4:29 Lift on Three
  3. 8:42 Up You Get (Part I)
  4. 12:39 I Left the Hall Dark (Part I)
  5. 16:58 Up You Get (Part II)
  6. 20:57 He Lifts His Chin (Part I)
  7. 25:16 Only Pull (Part I)
  8. 29:15 At Arm's Length
  9. 33:40 Let It Run (Part I)
  10. 37:38 He Lifts His Chin (Part II)
  11. 41:55 I Left the Hall Dark (Part II)
  12. 45:58 The Through-Stone (Part I)
  13. 50:20 The Through-Stone (Part II)
  14. 54:43 Bare Hands on the Comb (Part I)
  15. 59:15 Leave the Hinge
  16. 1:03:42 If It Takes (Part I)
  17. 1:07:44 Somebody Holds the Towels (Part I)
  18. 1:11:38 The Pane I Owed (Part I)
  19. 1:16:01 Let It Run (Part II)
  20. 1:20:18 Pay Out the Rope
  21. 1:24:15 The Pane I Owed (Part II)
  22. 1:28:28 The Whetstone in My Coat (Part I)
  23. 1:32:26 Bare Hands on the Comb (Part II)
  24. 1:36:39 Four Inches Will Hold
  25. 1:40:33 Somebody Holds the Towels (Part II)
  26. 1:45:03 The Whetstone in My Coat (Part II)
  27. 1:49:39 Only Pull (Part II)
  28. 1:53:38 If It Takes (Part II)
  29. 1:57:41 Slower Than the Smallest Bubble (Part II)