blurer by Periphery Serpentine
blurer is a peripheral study exploring ways to perceive our surroundings beyond any focal point. The poetic text “where the winds are coming from”, invites contributing artists and musicians to collectively explore a world that has become unfamiliar yet again. Inspired by the moment Alice tumbles into Wonderland, it asks what it means to unlearn, relearn, and navigate within a world anew. Like Alice, this conceptual mixtape delves into places, things, and feelings that have been overlooked, ignored or seen as a backdrop. The text, tracks, and sounds of this compilation take us on an explorative journey—not to arrive somewhere, but to sense that what lies within the blur has always already been in the here:now.
(Lisa Walder, 2025)
Most music is used as a form of abstract translation. To unblur the personal, we abstract it and transform and transport it through familiar sounds. Through abstraction, the motives are essentialized to their core. In this, minimalism becomes a prioritisation. A blur can be more flexible. The reduction of elements could be optimistic or protective.
What this release does is observe the peripheral, to look for emotionality or personality within it, but also to create atmospheres that appear peripheral, yet are again included in the general blur.
When hearing the sounds of blurer, the focus of the compositions fluctuates and directs the listener’s perception to certain points within, not only to hear what seems essential but also to draw closer attention to the peripheral. Throughout the whole release, the procedures are very different. Some moments are vivid, almost narrative. There are deconstructed references to find, in both energetic and quiet forms. Occasionally, we pass by rearing, foggy drone walls or prancing, twirling, or scurrying melodies carried around, on synths or guitar strings. Blurer seems to harbor atmospheres of comfort in the cold, loops of spiraling memories or expressions of disorientation, that scamper around on the acoustic foundation created by the 19 artists.
(Elia Brülhart, 2025)
Tracklist
| 1. | Clair X - 2 Seconds Dream | 4:14 |
| 2. | 4AV - my world feels | 4:09 |
| 3. | Ana Jikia - cusp | 3:47 |
| 4. | tildra - scratch spin | 4:05 |
| 5. | Loft Garten - skyer | 2:40 |
| 6. | Ssaliva - memory glu | 3:03 |
| 7. | Eternal Brink - Trace gets lost | 5:26 |
| 8. | t_fortuna - a Trap will set you free | 5:56 |
| 9. | Thy Truong - light retina | 5:44 |
| 10. | Geo - airblades | 3:26 |
| 11. | Promise - higher ground | 2:02 |
| 12. | Mschyen - bouncing orchid | 6:00 |
| 13. | Tobias Koch - Rift | 5:22 |
| 14. | 2\a . - i would recognize you in total darkness | 7:27 |
| 15. | So Many Wishes - FV Mollified Wishes | 4:50 |
| 16. | nightingale - sow | 5:18 |
| 17. | Maya Hottarek & Evita Manji - central steam | 6:40 |
| 18. | Global Boiler Repair - safe | 6:03 |
Credits
Assembled by Periphery Serpentine
Commissioned Text by Lisa Walder
Mastered & Cut by Isabel Schröer
Artwork & Design by Dimitri Erhard
supported by GGG Kulturkick Basel-Stadt
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