Nick Notis an electronic musician from Seattle and much into the electronic music scene there, sent this lovely piece over. "Cooksonia" is the first track on his experimental EP "Lycopods" that's available for free download on nicknotis.com. The album is full of classical compositions built with luscious electronics sounds. But don't just take my word for it. (Reading Rainbow! What?)

Nick Notis has been creating sound art in Seattle since 2000. He has composed soundscapes for theatre, dance, short films and performance art. At his recording studio, Bees, Notis has produced songs for Seattle bands The Long Ranger, The Stereo Future, and Okie Dokie Donkey. His previous albums, Bees and White Chicks received online accolades from his electronic music peers at em411.com. His boy-pop alter ego Tommy Shane released the EP Shane Reaction last year to the popular acclaim/delighted derision of Seattle’s performance art scene.

With Lycopods, Notis strives to take melodic composition to a new level, one previously unexplored in the electronic music (EM) world. The basic approach to EM has always been to come up with a minimal number of passages that get repeated for the duration of the song. In Notis’ songs, there is a constantly evolving melody with different movements, such as those found in European and Japanese classical music. Notis has also created very detail-rich spaces for the listener. Lycopods conveys the illusion of a real space and pushes the recorded medium to a high level of surreality. There’s something very striking about hearing a recording of artificially crafted noises in what sounds like a real space. But that’s exactly what Notis has achieved by using a mix of sampled acoustic constructions and synthetic instruments. The result is a sound that sometimes recalls familiar instruments, but often pulls the listener out of time and space.

Listen below or download here.

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