Music For Resistance Fantasies

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1.	Dreamy 06:14	buy track
2.	Airy 06:28	buy track
3.	Noisy 06:46	buy track
4.	Spacy 06:48	buy track
5.	Voxy 05:56	buy track
6.	Dreamy Reprise 04:44	buy track

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"MEGALOPHOBE’s Music for Resistance Fantasies deserves to be remembered as one of the most iconic and painfully lovely summations of the year. ...an ambient, oceanic sensation of grief that penetrates and obliterates the entire self at once. After a year of so many lies and so many haranguing demands for false toughness, music that provides no refuge from sadness is a gift—and yes, a form of resistance too." - Chicago Reader

"Listening to the performance piece written by MEGALOPHOBE’s Benjamin Levitt, entitled Music For Resistance Fantasies, it’s like I’m hearing the presence of my resistance as it lives in my belly, heart, and mind. It’s constant, kind of soothing, kind of unsettling, like the rolling thunder above our heads and under our feet, reminding me of my truth when I try to look away from it. I need to escape into it instead, and that’s what this music is allowing me to do." - CVLT Nation

"a spacious, eerie dark ambient piece that brings to mind supernatural imagery, dystopian landscapes and otherworldly space. It’s not too far off from the expansive pieces on Tangerine Dream’s Zeit, with Levitt using unconventional methods to get interesting sounds from his accordion." - Treble

"The music doesn’t feel overly shrill or coarse, which makes the overarching vibe feel at least subtly bright, as if the sun is beginning to slowly emerge on the visible horizon within the music’s metaphorical soundscape. Across ‘Dreamy Reprise,’ the tones persistently and confidently proceed, seemingly capturing an expansive, surroundings-conscious portrait of self-contemplation. The song feels like a moment of looking in a mirror — while the mirror is cracked and laying against a sidewalk." - Captured Howls

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released December 18, 2020

Catalog ID: NEF-63
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This music was composed and recorded for Marion Storm's resistance fantasies, strategies for moving toward - and against, performed at the Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, NY as part of the 2019 Exponential Festival. As Storm put it, "a three-hour-long dance performance full of scores, group action, live composition, and deep listening.”

Accordion and effects performed and recorded by Benjamin Levitt
at Forked Audio, Brooklyn, NY. Mastered by David Salierno.
Cover photo by Benjamin Levitt, inner photo by Jon Burklund/Zanni Video.
Layout and design by David Brenner/Gridfailure.

Megalophobe is very grateful to choreographer Marion Storm for inviting me and my music to be a part of her performance. And to the performers, Aye Eckerson, Ann-Marie Gover, Leanna Grennan, and Tara Sheena, for inspiring this composition and collaborating on the many hours of improvisation during the performances.

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Droning, screeching, whispering since 2012.

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