The Arbitrary Dimension Of Dreams

by Cate Kennan

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sydnoreaster textures that sketch the dimension of dreams, or perhaps distant memory Favorite track: Halcyon.

Brad Rose This album was featured on the 5/18/23 episode of Foxy Digitalis Daily: foxydigitalis.zone/2023/05/18/foxy-digitalis-daily-5-18-23-cate-kennan/ Favorite track: Isle Of Mirrors.

vitamin_wig_c Fantastic work! Really love Black Dogs and the lil bits of wind on Ghost. Favorite track: Black Dogs.

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1.	Into The Invisible Ocean 01:21	buy track
2.	Illusory Fields 03:45	buy track
3.	Black Dogs 01:07	buy track
4.	Two Ships 01:58	buy track
5.	Ghost 02:14	buy track
6.	Isle Of Mirrors 02:18	buy track
7.	Maze 01:47	buy track
8.	Sundial 02:40 video	buy track
9.	Light Blue 02:16	buy track
10.	Blood Moon 02:13 video	buy track
11.	Halcyon 01:09	buy track
12.	Chimera 02:52	buy track

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‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams’ is Cate Kennan’s oblique exploration of memory, nighttime, and narrative. The resulting 12 compositions are brisk, evocative, and lingering. Kennan’s sonic palette is vast yet harmonized, deftly matching spectral synthesizers to hazy lap steel guitars and watery analog effects. Existing in the sparsely occupied world of early melodic electronic music, her songs call to mind the sonic landscape’s of Malcolm Cecil, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Deux Filles. Each individual track sculpts a setting, constructing an amorphous landscape of surreal musical vignettes. Picture a boat tied to a dock, bobbing with the waves, wisps of fog refusing the complete vision. This is the nebulous space of ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams,’ an enveloping, insistent realm that feels both intimately familiar and profoundly otherworldly.

The album sustains the tension between dream, fiction, and reality thanks to Kennan’s investment in the contradictions of these states. She notes that the fundamentally absurd and arbitrary nature of dream does not free us from the dominion that daydreams, fantasies, and wishes have on our lives. Similarly, the understanding that our dreams belong entirely to us, products of our individual mind, cannot undo the suspicion that they somehow come from somewhere else. For ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams,’ Kennan expresses this tension by pairing the grand gestures of film scores with intensely personal idiosyncrasies: abrupt endings, murky, subharmonic rumbling, and ghostly fragments. Kennan’s sense of timing, her steadfastness, and her daring ensure that even the slightest detail in this narrative is gripping, poignant, and expressive.

Cate Kennan is a Los Angeles native. ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams’ is her debut LP, following appearances on the compilations ‘Succession Sounds, Vol. I’ (2019, Post Present Medium) and ‘Clay Bodies’ (2021, Objects & Sounds).

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released October 21, 2022

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by Cate Kennan

Roland Juno-106, Serge Modular, Korg EX-8000, Yamaha DX-21, Behringer Model D, Wurlitzer, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Akai MPC 1000, Miscellaneous Percussion, Eventide H949, Ibanez AD202, Vermona VSR 3.2, Korg DRV-3000

Guitar on Sundial performed by Scott Gilmore
Lap Steel Guitar on Illusory Fields, Black Dogs, and Maze performed by Cody Farwell

Recorded and mixed by Cate Kennan
Mastered by Sean McCann

Painting by Jack C. Baker
Design by Roy Tatum

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