MAHAMUDRA, by Sun Hammer

MAHAMUDRA

by Sun Hammer

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about

‘Mahamudra’ – rough translation: “great gesture” – was created in Portland, OR primarily in 2013 and 2014. It was intended to present a shift away from the more esoteric drone music Sun Hammer had primarily created for the previous few years into a more expansive synthesis of tastes and influences. Taking cues from drone, as well as hip-hop, techno, plunderphonics, glitch, post-dubstep mutations and process-based experimental music, MAHAMUDRA aims to present something more broadly accessible to fans of electronic music as a sort of magnum opus for the Sun Hammer identity.

The first Sun Hammer release to incorporate elements from his ever-growing personal library of daily musical exercises – a practice which the artist has diligently kept up since 2012 – MAHAMUDRA acts as a master class in modern electronic music production technique. Ever the engineer, Sun Hammer drew on his considerable expertise and knowledge to craft these 12 tracks: drum programming, odd time-signatures, FM, granular and additive synthesis, data-to-sound transformation algorithms, graphic scores, randomized processes, multi-generational sampling, vocoder, auto-tune, breakbeats, trap-style beat tags and more. The end result is a sprawling collection of rhythmic sculptures that calls to mind any number of reference points, while still forcefully asserting an identity and aesthetic all its own.

In 2015, after a long delay, the album was mixed by Sun Hammer with Chris Koltay at High Bias Recordings studio in Detroit MI. Software used was Ableton Live and Max / MSP, along with piano, voice and field recordings captured on iPhone.

credits

released September 15, 2016

Written and produced by Jay Bodley at Sun Hammer Business Campus,

Portland OR, 2012-2015.

Mixed by Chris Koltay & Sun Hammer at High Bias Recordings, Detroit MI, 2015.

Mastered by Andrew Weathers.

Artwork by Mike Todd.

Layout by Gretchen Korsmo.

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Full Spectrum Records releases the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames and unique compositional approaches.

discography

Birl of Unmap

Feb 2022
Improvisation[Collocation(210620)]

Jan 2022
Twin Mirror

Jan 2022
Of the Dying Year

Dec 2021
Tethers

Dec 2021
Dialogue: hello modular, I’m analogue

Nov 2021
Labor

Nov 2021
Leisure

Nov 2021
Cacerolazo

Oct 2021
Conway Library

Oct 2021
Two Futures

Sep 2021
Frozen Lake Assemblage

Sep 2021
Impostor Syndrome

Aug 2021
Field Patterns

Aug 2021
Sounds for Walking in Circles

Aug 2021
Catalogs: Sound Pieces with Text and 10 Unrealized Scores

Jul 2021
Stoner Lake in G

Jul 2021
Cloud Juice

Jun 2021
Arrangements

Jun 2021
Remedies Against Discontents

Jun 2021
FS100

May 2021
Eulogy for Land

Apr 2021
Argent

Apr 2021
Natural Bridge

Apr 2021
Grey & Gold

Mar 2021
Thoughts and Memories While Traveling Through West Texas

Feb 2021
New Ruins

Feb 2021
Practice

Feb 2021
Metal Lake Reservoir

Jan 2021
Fermented Brain

Dec 2020
Stick Control for the Air Drummer

Dec 2020
Split

Nov 2020
An Opening

Nov 2020
Plays Wind Tide

Oct 2020
Mueller Tunnel

Sep 2020
The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky

Aug 2020
a selective list of places I will never enter again for personal reasons 10/8/16

Jul 2020
City of Rocks

Jul 2020
When The Moon Fills With Blood

Jun 2020
Steam Turned To Ash

Jun 2020
Two Loud Rooms

May 2020
Flatland Mystic

Apr 2020
dirt road

Apr 2020
Conways

Mar 2020
Georgetown Archive

Mar 2020
SOUND-OPt

Mar 2020
san francisco: an audiophony in four movements

Feb 2020
Put Your Face In The River

Jan 2020
Cumberland County

Dec 2019
The Blood

Dec 2019
Sun Dogs

Nov 2019
Disposition

Oct 2019
Infinite Futures

Aug 2019
Every Road is a Good Road

May 2019
hirakito

Feb 2019
Things I said I'd never be

Jan 2019
wanna live in the world w/a whole face

Oct 2018
Radiate Don't Fear The Quietus

Jun 2018
s/t

May 2018
Lavatone

Mar 2018
Earth Tones at the Metal Show

Jan 2018
beneath the

Aug 2017
Ctrl-Z

Jul 2017
Nakatani/Nanna/Schoofs/Woods

Jul 2017
25 to 40

May 2017
Ogallala

Mar 2017
Golden Apples of the West

Jan 2017
The Channeled Voice

Jan 2017
I Can't Sleep, I Can't Wake Up

Oct 2016
Let Me Sleep / Death is a Narrow Sea

Sep 2016
MAHAMUDRA

Sep 2016
Sloth Period

Sep 2016
Emptiness Smiles

Apr 2016
Oakland to Sebastopol

Apr 2016
fey flight founders

Apr 2016
Deepest Indigo

Feb 2016
Nin-o-Van

Nov 2015
fine.

Nov 2015
Dillingham

Sep 2015
Olivebridge

Sep 2015
STRATUM

Sep 2015
Freight 1110 Through Greensboro

Mar 2015
Songs For Puppies

Mar 2015
Hymn Her Hum

Oct 2014
O, Annihilator

Oct 2014
Louella

Aug 2014
The Untuning of the Sky

Jun 2013
Dreamless

Feb 2013
Weakness

Dec 2012
I Will Love You, Always

May 2012
Open Mystery

Mar 2012
sam uho

Aug 2011
Same River Twice: In The All Together Vol. 3

Jul 2011
Word Is Bond

Mar 2011
A Season In Decline

Dec 2010
Over My Obstructions Volume 1: This Voice Saying These Words

Nov 2010
Lungs

Jun 2010
Revisiting

Apr 2010
A Process in the Weather of the Heart

Mar 2010
Andrew Weathers / Noose of Laurels

Dec 2009
Pnomoneya

Jun 2009
Holiday

Feb 2009
Aa

Jan 2009

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