Typically known for visceral live techno sets, Seattle’s Madi Levine (IVVY) blends their background in jazz and electronic synthesis into hauntingly beautiful atmospheric compositions. Their ambient works are cathartic expressions of healing, navigating the past and hope for the future
A big focus of my ambient work is live instrumentation and improv. This is an ode to my Dad who taught me how to play this way. I like to work with guitars, harmonica, four track cassette tape recording techniques (like backwards tape loops), percussion and drums, and various other synths and effects. Jazz is definitely a big element in the rhythm/drums and the brokenness of the loops. Everything is very free and almost unsynchronized - influenced by 70s and 80s jazz fusion and ECM Records.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
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