Everything in its own place, by Ümlaut

Everything in its own place

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1.	To charm motorways 06:06	buy track
2.	Ingratiating ourselves with birds 04:56	buy track
3.	A vast, conforming suburb 04:00	buy track
4.	Veering through the cortical night 03:56	buy track
5.	An almost invisible literature 04:48	buy track
6.	The fiction that is already there 06:00	buy track
7.	Sleepwalking to oblivion 05:00	buy track
8.	An ever more ambiguous world 04:16	buy track
9.	The great twin leitmotifs 04:30	buy track
10.	Instantly appealing forms 04:24	buy track
11.	This immense motionless pause 04:36	buy track
12.	Everything turns into television 06:01	buy track

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Ümlaut continues to traverse the realms of experimental and ambient music with “Everything in its own place.” In the interplay of finespun electronics and eclectic field recordings, the listener is airlifted out of the quotidian and into an “immense motionless pause.” A dream-like space where melodies emerge and music breathes. The concept of this album arose during a hearing test. Abstract tones and varying frequencies fed into the headset worn by the composer evoked an epiphany. Like an art-meets-life heartbeat. The abstract tones and frequencies swimming inside the composer’s head would inspire this album. Although the initial test showed hearing damaged, the diagnosis would be reversed. Like science fiction, it was just not true. To quote writer J.G. Ballard, “…sooner or later, everything turns into television.”

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. Using a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach, his elusive patchwork of field recordings and electronics merge with the world of shadows and colours. Allowing for infinite possible interpretations, he lets the listener’s imagination fill in the blanks between the grainy textural sounds with elements of ambient, musique concrète and noise. Combining spaciousness with a sense of intimacy introduces a musical language of experimental ambience. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence.

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Review by Peter Hollo in radio show Utility Fog on FBi Radio:
"The work of Jeff Düngfelder aka Ümlaut also uses tiny spikes of digital sound, but melds them with cleverly-edited field recordings to build impressionist sound-paintings on his album for Esc.rec.. On "This immense motionless pause" the tiny sounds sweep up and down in pitch like some alien natural phenomenon. Like a nature documentary soundtrack for an alternate reality, this music contains all the busyness and peace of life going about its business."

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Review by Ben Taffijn in Nieuwe Noten:
"Ümlaut, ofwel de in het noorden van Connecticut woonachtige Jeff Düngfelder maakt bijzonder ingetogen, maar ook zeer afwisselende elektronische muziek. Voor ‘Everything in Its Own Place’ liet Düngfelder zich inspireren door een gehoortest die hij een tijd geleden kreeg. Een boeiende combinatie van ambient, noise en veldopnames schotelt Düngfelder ons hier voor. Een overtuigend afwisselende klankwereld ook in ‘Ingratiating Ourselves with Birds’. Op dit album treffen we de nodige spannende momenten, bijvoorbeeld in ‘Veering through the Cortical Night‘ en ‘An Almost Invisible Literature’. Daarbij valt op dat de muziek van Ümlaut ook iets fragmentarisch, terloops heeft. Patronen worden zelden echt uitgewerkt, vaker is er sprake van het leggen van mozaïeken. Qua spanning en afwisseling moet ook ‘Sleepwalking to Oblivion’ genoemd worden, mede vanwege de onregelmatige ritmiek. Bijzonder zijn ook ‘The Great Twin Leitmotifs’, vanwege het creatieve gebruik van noise en ‘This Immense Motionless Pause’, vanwege de futuristische geluiden die Ümlaut hier vermengt met ambient-achtige klanknevels."

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released May 2, 2023

Music composed & constructed by Jeff Düngfelder
Mixed & Mastered at the Hopmeadow Studio, Weatogue, Connecticut

Jeff Düngfelder: electronics, field recordings and noise

Design by Jeff Düngfelder

The song titles were inspired by the writings of J.G. Ballard

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