
Polyphony Più
Oscillating Illuminations

Released in 2016, Oscillating Illuminations marks the debut of Polyphony Più, introducing the project’s distinctive blend of electronic experimentation, noise‑leaning textures, classical motifs, and globally inflected sound. Across twenty tracks, the album moves like a survey of shifting perceptual states —moments where history, geography, and cognition overlap in unexpected ways.
The opening pieces set the tone: “Myriad of Tones (The Holocene of the Quaternary Period)” situates the listener within a vast geological timeframe, while “Neurotheology” turns inward, tracing the neurological roots of spiritual experience. “A Night in Bandung” and “6.1750° S, 106.8283° E” anchor the album in specific locations, using sound to evoke the atmosphere of place, memory, and cultural drift.
Elsewhere, the album engages directly with questions of representation and interpretation. “Cultural Appropriation" and "The Song of Hiawatha” examines the tension between artistic borrowing and historical distortion, a theme that resonates throughout the record’s broader exploration of cross‑cultural sound.
Oscillating Illuminations stands as a wide‑ranging first statement — an album that treats sound as both inquiry and illumination, mapping the intersections between science, myth, geography, and the evolving architecture of human thought.
01. Neurotheology II
02. Conform or Be Cast Out
03. The Dreams in that Room
04. Gua sha
05. Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
06. Air Minum Dalam Kemasan
07. The Human Use of Human Beings
08. The Genomic Discipline
09. Myriad of Tones (The Holocene of the Quaternary Period)
10. Neurotheology I
11. A Night in Bandung
12. Heavens to Murgatroyd
13. Immune to Your Consultations
14. 6.1750° S, 106.8283° E
15. Cultural Appropriation
16. Equilibrium Incompletely Observable Systems
17. When the Wind Dies Down
18. Neurotheology III
19. Beetroot
20. The Song of Hiawatha
2016/04/30
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