Pseudophone - Reach

Pseudophone. The word sounds obvious, and yet somehow obscure. It’s a complex idea to express an arcane instrument of little-explored science. It’s an actual device that folks who do auditory work esteem. It produces illusory auditory localization for the listener through the curious device of changing the relationship between the person receiving the sound and the actual direction of the sound. A curious bit of misdirection, this Pseudophone, based upon the idea that what you hear may not be coming from the place you think you are hearing it. In music circles, Pseudophone is sometimes used to describe the cinematic in music. The duo Pseudophone, however, are not mere visitors on Sunset Boulevard who long to flash forward, Gloria-Swanson-style, to the fleeting embers of fame. Pseudophone are instead good old-fashioned campfire storytellers, flipping the cards of sound to create evocative animated music.

Pseudophone strives to craft cinematic pieces that "tell a place"—a space so full of character a story will unfold there almost entirely by itself. Every tool in the Psueophophone studios—whether stringed or controlled by faders, whether banged on or dialed in—is musical. In Pseudophone's world every sound is sacred, and any sound can be composted. What is more sacred than a story? The Spirit moves across the water, and the words appear in the beginning, and in the end.

The original music and production work of Pseudophone, collectively or as individuals, has appeared in feature film, television, radio, computer-based multi-media and games, installations, as well as in the concert hall. We at NSI do not worry much about installations and infrastructure. Our hope is that the Creative Commons album Reach will download freely into the listener’s daydreams—as if the waking world were misdirected, changing the auditory localization of the listener’s inner experience.

Reach is a travelogue of sorts, but the destinations are unmapped. It is a sonic diary of places told, a soundtrack of possible journeys—both outward and within. Yet we hope you find it not so much a long voyage as a dreamy sail—no coins are required for the boatman.

Pseudophone is:

Hoby Ebert
Peter Koniuto

Individual 256kbps Downloads:

1. Walkabout - has been downloaded 813  times
Ebert – electric guitar
Koniuto – Ace Tone electric organ, percussion, schemes & treatments, assemblage

2. Kainchi Tangent - has been downloaded 614 times
Ebert – electric guitar, Ensoniq FIZMO
Koniuto - Ace Tone electric organ, schemes & treatments

3. Evidence of Things Unseen - has been downloaded 644 times
Ebert – electric guitar, ocarina, schemes & treatments, assemblage
Koniuto – Ace Tone electric organ, field recordings, schemes & treatments

4. R Finds the Factory - has been downloaded 593 times
Ebert – Korg EA-1 and ER-1
Koniuto – electric bass guitar, schemes & treatments

5. The Reach - has been downloaded 615 times
Koniuto – voice, schemes & treatments, assemblage
Kim Mitchell – voice

6. Kov-Ata - has been downloaded 631 times
Ebert – electric guitar
Koniuto – field recordings, schemes & treatments
* Recorded live to 2-track*

All pieces created by Pseudophone except: "The Reach" – created by Peter Koniuto

Recorded and mixed at:
Red Sun Soundroom www.RedSunSoundroom.com
MoonDogEast www.MoonDogEast.org