Seofon: Zero Point: Lessons in being nothing Seofon: Zero Point: Lessons in being nothing (the Foundry - 2001) Zero Point: Lessons in being nothing is a lesson in the benefits of communal recycling... Beginning with some of his Ambient Temple of Imagination Planetary House Nation tracks, Seofon joins fellow recyclers Vidna Obmana and Steve Roach in reworking the sounds therein... as if that weren't enough, several of those tracks were then re-recycled in collaboration with Robert Rich, Thermal, Stephen Kent and Not Breathing. From a gorgeous shapeshifting mistiness, trainlike percolations slowly approach as splendors evolves from its former life. With the brooding resonance of a faraway industrial zone, the gift (2:05) drones mysteriously, accented by faintly insectile chitters. Buzzing with the energies of Kent's didgeridoo sounds, Collecting the Spirits churns insistently before fading into distant vapors. Tribaltronic beats patter steadfastly through the hazy veils and electric wails of the Seofon/Rich redux, science of success. Of course, Roach is the driving force behind rev. 20:13 teknos (the seeding) (18:04), the track that expands like a humongous western skyscape; occasional chanting voices are heard deep inside the sweltering gaseousness which becomes brassier in its later incarnations. Densely ringing space envelops lessons in being nothing, which grows louder and is injected with a clunky mechanical pattern. Passed from Roach/Obmana to Thermal/Seofon, zero point concludes the collection with its beautifully cloudy swirls conglomerated around and concealing some inner core of unseen goings on. Being familiar with the original ATOI tracks makes for some interesting before-and-after comparisons, but such familiarity isn't necessary to enjoy these considerably more ambient re-dos. In the making of Zero Point: Lessons in being nothing, Seofon has enlisted help from some of the finest experimentalists and jointly achieved lovely 8.7 abstractions. Obtain this disc from the Foundry or their new partner, Hypnos. This review posted September 29, 2001 AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).