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Spectral

by Madeleine Cocolas

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Enfold 04:11
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Presence 04:54
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Resonance 04:09
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In Waves 04:06
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Rip 04:34

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From Madeleine Cocolas


Spectral is built on a foundation of sounds I collected from my immediate surroundings in recent times.  It’s a familiar story, casting your ears close to home. I captured these sounds as a type of aural diary to mark days and weeks as they passed.  As our physical worlds seemed to become smaller, my senses of observation and perception of my immediate surroundings sharpened. Inside these small spaces I found a wellspring of materials that seemed to offer themselves up.

At the time I didn’t know why I was collecting sounds or what I would do with them, it just felt like something I needed to do and it helped me stay connected and feel tethered to my surroundings. With my phone on hand, ready to record on walks around the block, past whirring industrial machines, deafening crickets and crashing storms, I found so much beauty and meaning in the sounds and the recordings I collected. 

As the collection grew, I could sense these links between them, some sounds seemed to gravitate towards one another, they self arranged almost. It felt very natural to then build layers over the top of them, to be able to express some of the emotions that the sounds triggered, of memories from the moments from when they were captured.  

At its core, Spectral is about deep stillness, observation and perception underpinned by emotional expression. It is a subtle shift in memory, a recolouring of the world we think we know and a willingness to lean into that possibility.

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released July 15, 2022

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Madeleine Cocolas
Guitar on “Rip” by Anthony Cocolas  
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Photography and filming by Vanessa Van Dalsen at Vivid Visual. 
With thanks to Lawrence, Gregory, Beatrix and Xanthe.

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Madeleine Cocolas Brisbane, Australia

Madeleine Cocolas is an Australian composer and producer who creates post classical and ambient instrumental music. Her work moves between lush soundscapes to experimental electronics, field recordings and solo piano.

Madeleine has released music through Room40/Someone Good (Australia), Bigo & Twigetti (UK), Self Center Records (US), 1631 Recordings (UK) and Futuresequence (UK).
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