Wave Function.

If the earth could sing, if the wind could whisper its itinerant secrets, if fire could lament its own destruction - perhaps it would sound like "Wave Function", the latest eco-acoustic journey by Daniel Blinkhorn. A seasoned sound artist and field recordist, Blinkhorn has built a career on sculpting the ephemeral, translating the language of natural and synthetic worlds into music that feels both intimately familiar and otherworldly. Here, he extends that approach to its logical, shimmering extreme, crafting an album that is as much a meditation on sound as it is an exploration of its instability, resonance, and decay.

Blinkhorn's compositional process reads like a scientist’s field notes crossed with a poet’s dream journal. The raw materials of "Wave Function" include instruments both traditional and accidental: the "kibuyu", a gourd drum from Zanzibar, a Madagascan "valiha" zither, and a celluloid ping pong ball bouncing into an acoustic hallucination. And then, there are the environments - bushfires raging through Australia, the mechanical hum of urban landscapes, waves collapsing into themselves. Sound isn’t just captured here; it’s courted, manipulated, refracted into new dimensions.