It’s not often that someone is described as a “composer and theorist”, but that’s Thomas Delio job description that he uses as a basis for his mix of electronics and acoustics on this melding of sounds and moods. On this album, Delio uses various forms of electronics, mixed and matched with poet P. Inman, Chris Clarino-Jeffrey Gram/perc, Steven Leffue/sax, Karen Hendricks-Lisa Cella/fl, Galeb Kasenevich-David Welter/cl and Roger Zahab-Glab Kasenevich/cl. What results is a collection of suites that use silence as a sound, with intermittent chords, effects and notes popping in at various intervals and dynamics, almost akin to a musical hearing test.
Wisps and voices veer in and out of the four part “Tangier” while reflective wind chimes glisten for the three movement “India”. Sighing and heaving tones make up “Transparent Wave VII” while tactile touches and tinges are created on “Transparent Wave VI”. Long tones, lyrical Morse Code dots and dashes are palpable on “As Though Again” with scurrying critters scrambling across the quietude of “And of ‘of’”. Ambient at it’s most ambient.