Title : The Intimate Overlap
Artist : o[rlawren]
Formats : CD, Digital
Date : 2025
Label : Dronarivm/Fonodroom
The Intimate Overlap is the first of two simultaneous album releases from Dutch based label Dronarivm/Fonodroom from the Scottish based sound artist and electro-acoustic musician o[rlawren] and almost nine years since the label issued his 2016 album Branches, a collaborative album with French guitarist Cyril Secq.
Active for over two decades in the electronic music scene, o[rlawren] has developed a distinctive and intuitive approach to emotional and intimate details that unfold in his electroacoustic constructions, documented in a string of solo and collaborative releases.
Working with field recordings, acousmatic and modular synthesis techniques, The Intimate Overlap is presented in a suite of two parts
‘a structure in naming’ and ‘a nearness to the world’ over four longform pieces covering the album’s 73 minute running time.
Created over a nine year period as a delicate micro-drama of shifting proximities, each holding onto their roots,
folding, seeking nutrients, learning and unlearning.
An ecological relationship with micro sounds that are at once ecstatic, animated, tentative and visceral.
A neurodivergent yearning for new ways to connect, articulate and circulate.
An ecology of the senses in a music used as language.
a structure in naming
i. rhizomatic choreography [primitivistic touch]
ii. senses as limbs [an agreement of footsteps]
a nearness to the world
iii. the rhythm of the dividing pair [tender aspect]
iv. each to mine each [folding, every meaningful embrace]
Layout & design by Tui.
Sculptures by Norihiko Terayama, from his works Crust of the Polygon [studio-note.com].
Tui - eurorack modular system [make noise, instruo, pladask elektrisk, mutable instruments], monophonic synthesizer,
critter & guitari pocket piano, hikari monos, soma terra, wooden whistle, dilruba, clarinet, acoustic guitar, piano, maxforlive,
ableton live suite 12, field recordings.
Cyril Secq - charanga (iii).
Claire Whyte - vocals (ii).
Aaron Martin - cello (i, iii).
Katie English - flute (i).
Mastered by Tui at High Todholes,
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
Thank you to Norihiko, Cyril, Claire, Aaron, Katie, Dmitry and Artém.
Love with freedom for all.
’the temple bell stops, but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers’ - matsuo basho/eya klp