Jon Hopkins has launched a new Meditations series and shared its first track listen to Singing Bowl (Ascension) below.<\/p>\n
The track was created using vibrations from a 100-year-old singing bowl that Hopkins found in an antique shop in Delhi.<\/p>\n
The first version of what became the new track was heard at a 2019 installation at the Helsinki Arts Festival. Listen to the new track below.<\/p>\n
Talking about creativity during the coronavirus pandemic, and the process of creating the new track, Hopkins said: Like so many people I felt pretty paralysed by this situation when it first unfolded. All my plans for the year were cancelled, and everything felt so weird and dreamlike. But gradually I found I wanted to create something to find peace and perspective through making music, as I have always done.<\/p>\n
It felt beautifully pure to just use one acoustic sound source, and no synths. It was liberating to write something without playing anything on a keyboard to avoid the familiar diatonic scale for the first time, and thus avoid any of my own conditioned playing habits.<\/p>\n
Jon Hopkins. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n
He added: There was a magic in setting this generative system in motion then just letting the vibrations of this bowl create their own world. I listened to harmonics layering on top of harmonics for hours and was transported.<\/p>\n
Singing Bowl (Ascension) appears on a new meditative 24-hour playlist that Hopkins curated for Spotify, which you can listen to here.<\/p>\n
Jon Hopkins last shared new music back in February with stripped-back, acoustic track Scene Suspended. It follows 2018 LP Singularity, which NME described as perfectly showcasing the producers painstaking hypnotic mastery.<\/p>\n
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