TERENCE HANNUM

"Terence Hannum, one-third of the Baltimore-Chicago experimental metal powerhouse Locrian, learned a very important lesson early in his life: His knowledge of the world was limited. The visual artist, musician, and Stevenson University assistant professor of art recalls being 12 years old in Florida, about the time he first started getting into punk, hardcore, and the DIY culture of making zines, when a friend’s older sister put him in his place. She had a great tape collection, and one day she decided to school the youngsters because, as she told them, “You don’t know anything.” READ MORE HERE

I was interviewed by the excellent blog STEEL FOR BRAINS about my new solo LP Via Negativa on UTECH RECORDS, the forthcoming LOCRIAN album and my visual art. Take a Listen.

TERENCE HANNUM: Via Negativa LP (UTECH RECORDS) / PRE ORDER 07/12/14

CATALOG NUMBER: URLP088

FORMAT: Powder blue LP in single pocket gatefold jacketDownload + bonus track

Edition of 300

TRACKLIST

SIDE A

1. Become More, Become Less

2. If Only You Knew What DarknessI am Plunged Into

SIDE B

1. Unapproachable Light

BONUS TRACK1. The Ideal Forms

ART: Terence Hannum

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Keith Utech

RELEASE DATE: August 16, 2014

Via Negativa is the first solo album by visual artist and Locrian member Terence Hannum for Utech Records. Incorporating voice and synth, Hannum creates a world where time slows and sound is reduced to the steady pulse of the universe.

Via Negativa is latin for “negative path.” It is a means of distillation. A way of describing something by saying what it is not.

You might say that ambient music is the music of subtraction: subtract the melody, subtract the harmony, subtract the rhythm. Subtract the author. Where much of music composition is a process of layered construction, ambient composition is closer to that of distillation: find the essential ingredient that will fundamentally transform a sonic environment and dispense with the rest. Recorded in Hannum’s basement studio with the most basic equipment, Via Negativa is a document of the artist’s own meditative process of subtraction. (Liner notes by Jenks Miller)