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Koppen

by Whettman Chelmets

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Af 03:25
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Dfc 04:29
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Cfa 03:16
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As 04:15
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Bwk 03:46
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BWh 09:22
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Csa 04:05
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"Mundane sounds of summer—wind chimes in the yard, activity in a local Tulsa park—take on a maddening urgency as Whettman Chelmets washes them in restless waves of modular synth. And rightfully so: in a summer of record heat waves, once-normal activities now carry an element of dread. To drive the point home, Chelmets names his album after the Köppen climate classification system and his tracks after climate designations. A case in point, “Csa” (temperate, dry hot summer) begins with the tinkling of a chime but turns unsettling when unidentifiable animals purr, chitter, and screech under darkly cinematic washes of synth. Stylistically, Koppen constantly breaks its own boundaries and transforms into something else, something more sinister. It’s a frightening but necessary record that mirrors the instability of our climate categories as they dissolve and reform into terrifying new shapes before our eyes."

- Matthew Blackwell, Bandcamp, Best Field Recordings of July, 2023

daily.bandcamp.com/best-field-recordings/the-best-field-recordings-on-bandcamp-july-2023

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Koppen is a sprawling work exploring the divisions conceptually placed upon the daily, the mundane -- the things that are experienced and not the things in and of themselves. Based around the concepts of the Koppen classification system which divides the planet into different climate areas, Chelmets here divides sounds into the beautiful, the grotesque, the anxious, and the calm, often all within the same track, highlighting the inherent structural, non-natural forces at play when placing the world into comfortable shapes of understanding.

Working primarily through modular synth, the sounds here are tactile and physical. Field recordings include wind chimes from the yard and various sounds from The Gathering Place, a Tulsa, Oklahoma park, taken a year before relocating to the area. Composed work is also found here, starting with an opening track fugue and finding different 12 tone, FM melodies sneaking into the mix. The track titles are climate classifications used in the Koppen system.

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released December 14, 2023

Whettman Chelmets - modular synth, field recordings, FM blasts, pencils, paper, all the things.
No guitars were used or harmed in the making of this recording.

Recorded primarily in November of 2020, to January of 2021. Additional elements recorded in the Summer of 2021. Mixed and arranged in 2021 and 2022.

Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio (angelhairaudio.com)

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ambient drone shoegazey composed. Confrontational, uplifting, and silly.

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