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GLASSxTEETH - Whispers Heard Through Waiting Room Windows
Distance makes proximity easier.
Artistic collaboration as the most intimate form of communication. It’s always a precious moment where One allows Another into their creative space, but sometimes that is needed for growth and change to happen.
Recordings of modular synthesiser and flute by Amamanita Axaxaxanax Glass Seer serve as the impetus for the creation of “Whispers Heard Through Waiting Room Windows”. Through them, Teeth Dreams (aka Vi Aisling) chisels a cold but emotional five-part composition utilizing sound collage, musique concréte, and generative/granular synthesis processes. Alien-like soundscapes of the duo are always morphing into the next iteration, giddy with creative juices - indecipherable screech-like synth lines soon give way to a barrage of noise blasts that soon roar with a distorted voice. The latter, courtesy of Glass Seer, gives the piece an important human quality, rooting the abstract in the shared experience of the flesh. Crucially, they mark a change in the piece as they writhe, floating on a cloud of reverb, producing a sublime, heavensward chant, scattered synths swirling on the sides. An almost-romantic flute escapade closes off the project, a mood shift like no other. “Whispers Heard Through Waiting Room Windows” showcases contrast on the record and off it. A project of “emotional intimacy” between two artists who have seldom met but have shared a stage and, now, an album.
“The physical distance involved allowed me the space necessary to engage with another person, and their ways of making art, without feeling like I'm drowning in their presence,” says Teeth Dreams.
GLASSxTEETH is:
Amamanita Axaxaxanax Glass Seer: flute, vocals, modular synthesiser
Teeth Dreams: laptop, field recordings, tapes, synths
Mixed by Vi Aisling
Mastered by Lawrence English
Cover art by Michał Kęskiewicz
Tracklist
A1. Through Waiting Room Windows (pt.1) 10:18
A2. Through Waiting Room Windows (pt.2) 9:31
B3. Through Waiting Room Windows (pt.3) 4:43
B4. Through Waiting Room Windows (pt.4) 5:54
B5. Through Waiting Room Windows (pt.5) 9:23
Distance makes proximity easier. Make space, and emotions will follow.
About the Artist
Teeth Dreams is one of the musical monikers of Violet Aisling, an Australia-based ambient,
noise and drone musician. She has released solo albums as well as collaborations with Uboa, and Shallow. Her music is a melancholic mixture of manipulated synth and noise, field recordings and often explores alternative musical tunings like 7EDO.
Amamanita Axaxaxanax Glass Seer is a chaotic, feminine force who has been shredding up the Kaurna Yarta punk and experimental scenes since 2017. Described as a “thrill to see live and best observed in the basement of a DIY venue” by InDaily’s CityMag, yet relatively unknown to the outside world, who really is behind this behind this project? There’s someone behind that helmet but all we can tell is that it plays really beautiful flute and intense glitched IDM. In contrast with its masked identity, the music is raw and vulnerable. Don’t be weird about the name, don’t be weird about the unfamiliar, be normal!









