PINK noise
first single from debut album “Oceans on Azimuth”
Released March 13th ‘PINK noise’ is the first single from Lola de la Mata's upcoming Debut Album around Tinnitus: "Oceans on Azimuth" out May 8th 2024 + a 250 limited edition run colour vinyl.
PINK noise is a collaboration between myself and Lana Norris, resident musicologist at the Hudspeth Neuroscience Lab, NY. Our common interests were Maryanne Amacher and the inner ear…our diverging interests: opera, baroque music, prose for Lana. Improvisation, prepared violin, otoacoustic illusions for me. Our worlds and personalities truly collided in this performance style composition. I wanted to keep a raw quality to the piece, leaving space for the listener’s imagination to picture our duet in a domed architecture (hopefully a cochlea!).
The text written by Lana is in fact a list of terminology overheard at the lab, taken from the language of statistics and auditory psychophysics - which, mirrors musical language but with alternate meanings. The piece intends to feel like vertigo induced play...3/4 of the way in, “Hopf” tingles the brain from the sudden hyper produced stereo realm, holding attention around the ears before descending back into reverberant improvisatory chaos.
It's an added bonus that the title references Tara Rodger's book on women within electronic music and sound "Pink Noises".