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Cairn
In Cairn, Düngfelder’s focus on atmosphere and perception meets Beaudoin’s concern with time and memory, creating a dialogue where each sound becomes a trace left for the other to follow. What remains is a series of sonic markers, small monuments to attention, letting listeners linger on in the fragile continuations of sound.
Credits
- Music composed by Paul Beaudoin (Tallinn, Estonia) and Jeff Düngfelder (Weatogue, Connecticut)
- Mixed & Mastered at the Hopmeadow Studio, Weatogue, Connecticut
- Paul Beaudoin: https://linktr.ee/PaulBeaudoin
- Jeff Düngfelder: www.umlaut.work
Tracklisting:
- Sacred Inukuit
- Amaranthine
- Still Point
- Shadow of Light
- Me Before You
- Sea Marks
- Continuous Thread
- Unfettered
- Intentions of Grace
- Pathkeeper
- Aju
- Spirit Dreams
- Spectra
- Vestiges
Paul Beaudoin + Ümlaut
For Paul Beaudoin, sound unfolds like thought taking shape in time. His work traces the thresholds between hearing and remembering, where tones blur and stillness collapses into the echo of memory. Drawing from acoustic and electronic sources, he builds soundscapes that encourage the listener to sense how meaning gathers and disintegrates through the act of listening. Each piece offers a quiet architecture of concentration, inviting us to dwell within the fragile persistence of sound.
In Ümlaut's (aka Jeff Düngfelder) work, textures rarely stop, they linger. Layers of field recordings and electronic atmospheres drift and fuse until motion becomes still. His compositions observe how the world hums beneath its surface: wind caught in wires, the grain of passing air, a memory replayed through static. Working from a minimal palette, he shapes textures that feel both intimate and vast, allowing listeners to encounter a landscape where everything moves, yet nothing hurries. Each piece is a quiet act of attention, an instance of noticing before it dissolves into distance.
Reviews
African PaperThe collaborative album “Cairn” by Paul Beaudoin and Jeff Düngfelder, aka Ümlaut, is being released these days by Audiobulb. According to sources close to the artists, “Cairn” brings together two different but complementary approaches. Paul Beaudoin's contribution explores time, memory, and how meaning forms and dissolves in the act of listening. Düngfelder focuses on sustained textures created from field recordings and electronic elements, aiming less at development than at perception and lingering.
The collaboration gives rise to a multitude of richly detailed scenarios and moods, constantly reinventing themselves and thus lending each piece its own unique character. In this fusion of electronic and organic elements, these approaches combine to create a sequence of understated, attention-grabbing pieces, in which every sound is understood as a trace pointing to something that came before. “Cairn” is conceived as a dialogue in which atmosphere, temporality, and memory are not explained, but rather made audible. The album, featuring Düngfelder's artwork, is available as a download.
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