becoming-song: contemplative transnomadic sono-fictioning

by Jonathan Kay

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1.	Sound-Space Invention 01:15	info	buy track
2.	Nature Boy 15:18	lyrics	buy track
There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things Fools and kings This he said to me The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return
3.	Planetary Considerations 06:57	info	buy track
4.	Sonic Crystallization: Sky (overtonal) 04:03	info	buy track
5.	Sono-Yantra: 1-4-6-11 (eternal sound-image machine) 08:14	info	buy track
6.	Sonic Crystallization: Earth (reciprocal) 02:30	info	buy track
7.	Tundra Immanence (blowing meditation) 18:09	info	buy track
8.	Sound-Space Entanglement (4x+1) 04:58	info	buy track

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This album is an experiment in contemplative and transcultural musical nomadism.

Sono-poetic arts-based research involving:
• Solo music album: becoming-song: contemplative and transnomadic sono-fictioning
• Postscript a: Sono-Poetics of becoming-song
• Postscript b: Sonoculture: A musico-philosophical reflection

Overview of key musico-philosophical foundations:
• Musical trans-nomadism: an ethico-aesthetic revolution as experimental and transcultural improvisation through the activation of minor sonic-temporalities.

• Contemplation: a posture which generates transformative power through concentration and intensification of a psycho-cosmic will.

• Sono-poiesis: an integral sonic ecology resounding as a harmonious polyphony of spiritual anarchy through a posthuman refrain.

• Sono-fictioning: a perpetually experimental and non-sufficient/non-decisional (anti-authoritarian/fascist) posture of sonocultural production from the Real as a lived radical immanence through the force-of-sound-in-the-last-instance.

• Sonoculture: a performative field of collective transduction through silence/sound/noise/music, as the radical democracy of sound, free from a tonal caste system.

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released September 15, 2022

Released on Monsoon-Music Online Record Community
(www.monsoon-music.com), and the Indian Posthumanism Network (posthumanism.in)

For full Arts-based research posted on the Indian Posthumanism Network please visit:
posthumanism.in/uncategorized/becoming-song-contemplative-and-transnomadic-sono-fictioning/

Jonathan Kay - tenor and soprano saxophones, shakuhachi, esraj, electronics
Sound Bed (multi-stringed drone instrument) recording on Nature Boy provided by Aurelio

All compositions by Jonathan Kay
except Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez

All tracks recorded and edited by Jonathan Kay
except Nature Boy, recorded by Varun Rao

Mixed and Mastered by Justin Gray, Synthesis Sound - synthesissound.com

Original Album Artwork by Fumiyo Yoshikawa - www.fumiyo-y.com

Thanks to my mentors of cosmic musicality
• Debashish Banerji
• Allaudin Mathieu
• Shantanu Bhattacharyya
• Abir Singh Khangura

With special thanks to:
• Aurelio
• Varun Rao
• Fumiyo Yoshikawa
• Justin Gray
• Shayna Kay
• Andrew Kay

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Jonathan Kay Toronto, Ontario

Jonathan Kay is a jazz/improv & transcultural multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, esraj, shakuhachi), from Toronto, Canada. Inspired by the revolutionary and spiritual cries from John and Alice Coltrane, Jonathan traveled to Asia in search of non-western ways of musical knowing. He has lived in Kolkata for 10 years studying Raga music and studied Japanese shakuhachi music in Kyoto. ... more

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