"Greetings,

Umbel is my third in a series of photo book/music projects. Presented as a photo zine in tandem with an album of music (CD & digital), Umbel follows previous offerings Faults, Coasts, Lines and Lux: Refractions. The zine collects a series of full colour photos taken in the dwindling light of dusk under a blossoming maple tree. Long exposures capture painted light and a shadowy canopy under a dimming sky. The images are gestural and murky - light layered and smeared - innocuous moments of time revealing hidden noise, shadows and depth. The music is similarly removed from real time. Synthesized passages are looped, layered and repeated, feeding back into themselves to form a contracting density.

Available to ship May 31, 2024. Edition of 300. See bandcamp for more info and to hear the first track:

https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/umbel?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

To mark the release, there will be a series of deep listening sessions in 4DSOUND hosted by Vancouver’s own Lobe Studio, May 31 and June 1.  (...)

peace,

scott"