Scrying the Landscape episode XII w. Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack. Roving, cavernous, stretching outwards. Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack dedicate the twelfth instalment of 'Scrying the Landscape' to the power of Drone and its adjacent, inspired genres. Composed of sustained notes or tone clusters, Drone is often categorised as “maximal” music because it tests the physical limitations of listeners, producing bodily, meditative or even hallucinatory effects. Within the excessive duration of elongated or repetitive chords, unexpected frequencies can arise as the mind projects utterances that aren’t there. Traversing the realms of psych, folk, dark and experimental variants, this mix oscillates across the spectrum of dronology, towards an endlessly extending vanishing point where sound and music converge.

[Image: Koes Staassen, Bindings II (K.B. reclining), 2020]