Tonalism at Bonnaroo
06.17.23
This mix is a part of a pre-recorded collection of ambient sets which will be played back at the 2023 bonnaroo music and arts festival. dublab returns to bonnaroo for our third time to present these mixes beneath the trees and stars in “The Grove” area of the festival.
Eli Welbourne (aka Malcolm Elijah or Chic Patina) is a musician, visual artist, producer, curator, and DJ currently residing in Berlin, Germany – though they find home also exists in LA, New Orleans, and Austin.
Eli works in music production, sound design, generative techniques in sound art and video, community organizing, phenomenology, photography and video art, dance music, poetry, and theory.
From Eli:
In this mix I wanted to focus on composers that blur the line between the usual gamut of over the painfully over generalized terms of ambient, new age, or otherwise tonal contemplative music.
Most of the arrangements in what you’ll hear have a distinctive quality where traditional instruments blend with synthesizers, unique techniques in processing sound blur the line between organic and electronic timbres. It creates a non-time and place.
Every selection is off of a vinyl record that carefully came off of my shelves here in my new apartment in Friedrichshain (Berlin) and they each have a story to tell about me and about music. It’s deep mind music I consider beautiful. I hope you enjoy.
Follow Eli: @Eli_vision
