Elemental Fusion by Hunter Van Brocklin

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

Tracklist

1.	four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - I. a fresh dewy coronet	0:43

2.	four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - II. harvesthome dance	1:08

3.	four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - III. a white circlet of snow	0:59

4.	four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - IV. fruitage of wine	1:26

5.	the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - I. pastoral	5:07

6.	the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - II. chorale	3:53

7.	the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - III. first frost	7:31

8.	the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - IV. last light	3:47

9.	plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - I. transform fault	7:02

10.	plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - II. volcanic arc	4:24

11.	plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - III. seafloor spread	6:47

12.	yukimarimo (feat. Dorkus64) - I. hoarfrost	5:30

13.	yukimarimo (feat. Dorkus64) - II. electrostatic force	5:21

14.	it rained after the fire (feat. petet)	8:21

15.	blue whirl (feat. Cryptovolans)	4:45

Credits

released April 6, 2024

sparklecats2009 & Loni, album artwork
www.instagram.com/sparklecats2009/
loni.neocities.org

rewitkin, piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4)
www.youtube.com/@rewitkin

october williamson, guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8)
linktr.ee/october_stereo

ZBW, flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11)
soundcloud.com/ZBWMusic
twitter.com/ZBWMusic

Dorkus64, saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13)
dorkus64.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/dorkus-64

petet, violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14)
soundcloud.com/retropetet

Cryptovolans, drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15)
cryptovolans.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/cryptovolans
www.youtube.com/@Corruptovolans

Hunter Van Brocklin, all other music & manipulation of recordings
h-v-b.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/damifortune
www.youtube.com/@damifortune

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

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