In late fall of 2018, Ryan traveled to Valencia, California to meet with Michael for a weekend of informal conversations at California Institute of the Arts. Before Ryan returned home to Colorado, Michael gifted him a recently released recording of Teodora Stepančić, Assaf Gidron, and Martin Lorenz’s realization of Michael’s Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, a recording that profoundly impacted Ryan and served as the impetus for this recording.

A thrumming monadic field; a constellation of points in space; a sonic assemblage of interwoven periodicities of tones, percussion, noises, field recordings, and found sounds, Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation is an uncanny and enveloping sonic world in which thirteen “rings (or loops) of sound”—played by three musicians—wind around a center ring consisting of “a series of 88 sine tones, all partials of the 29hz fundamental.” This sonic world gradually unfolds over the course of nearly an hour, immanently revealing a material presence in which to dwell.

This live session recording of Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation was captured on a cold winter’s evening in late 2024 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was realized by
Forming, an ad hoc trio of Colorado-based experimentali Weathers.