infinitikiss is an ever-evolving musical and visual recording project conceptualized by Nic Jenkins, and ambient music is his latest full length album, as well as first release with Fort Lowell Records. The core material for ambient music came from live improvisations that were recorded to cassette tapes, which originally served as backing tracks for live solo performances and with rotating ensembles (circa 2015-2020), in and around Charleston + Columbia, SC. Since then, the tapes have since become a kind of sample library of colors & shapes that have served a variety of sound collage / design situations, as well as fodder for other strange + beautiful collaborations.
It was a slow-growing interest in sound healing, vibrational therapy, and learning about Jenkin's own chakra / energy systems that helped him realize (and to illuminate) that this dusty collection of sounds could actually be its own album. The song titles reflect the moods & colors (aka spectral wave) of the blending and bending of colors in a rainbow (ROYGBIV), as well as to the energy fields of our bodies; corresponding to the “roygbiv” sequence and play with imagery of said colors.
Considering the nature of tape (magnetic film), Jenkins seized the opportunity to explore a range of microtonal frequencies which ultimately helped him to decide to tune down or up to 432, 440, and 444 hz. The intention was to explore, to enjoy, and to hopefully gain an expanded awareness of shifting frequencies. The keys & frequencies (or tunings) of each piece / movement are:
track:
- A major (432)
- B minor (432)
- B major (432)
- C major (432)
- D major, part 1 (432)
- D major, part 2 (440)
- D major, part 3 (444)
- Eb minor (444)
- F major (444)
- G major (444)
For Jenkins, this is just the beginning of an understanding of how energetic vibrations move within and around us.
