Progressive Rock Central interview, January 2016 

JANUARY 19, 2016 ANGEL ROMERO

Dawn Treader by Chronotope Project is one of the best electronic music releases of 2015. Progressive Rock Central talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Jeffrey Ericson Allen, the artist behind the project.

Why did you name your current endeavor Chronotope Project?

The term “chronotope” was coined by the Russian philologist Mikhail Bakhtin, from the Greek words for time (chronos) and space (topos), and refers to their confluence in works of art and literature. It felt…

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Artist Interview with Blake Gibson 

Blake Gibson (Broken Harbor)

I'm quite new to your music and the name Chronotope Project. I was curious what "Chronotope" meant and googled it. I...didn't really understand, care to enlighten your listeners?


Jeffrey Ericson Allen (Chronotope Project)

Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with me, Blake. "Chronotope" is a marvelous word that was coined in the 1930s by the Russian philologist M.M. Bakhtin to talk about time (Greek: chronos), and space (tropos) as a conjoined concept, so it literally…

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Interview with Thomas Mathie, Headphonaught's Nanolog 

Thomas Mathie:  When I received the album Chrysalis by Chronotope Project aka Jeffrey Ericson Allen I was intrigued ... the music spoke of something more ... something deeper. So I reached out and asked him my wee blog interview. I was not disappointed with what he had to say:

1) Who are you and what do you do?

My name is Jeffrey Ericson Allen, though as an ambient music composer, I identify myself with the moniker Chronotope Project. "Chronotope" is a term I've borrowed from literary criticism to refer…

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John Cage on writing music 

Music is neither a livelihood nor a hobby for me; it's an expression of what it means to live, to respond authentically to the great mystery that surrounds us. I resonate very deeply with this statement by John Cage in 1957 ("Experimental Music") on the vocation of the composer:

  "And what is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposelessness or a purposeless play. This play… Read more

On Sound 

Almost everyone likes or even loves some kind of music, but it's rare to hear anyone talk about loving sound. My own love affair with sound must have started when I was a child, and it's taken many twists and turns over the years. I recently bought a portable digital recorder with good fidelity, and I've noticed that recording and listening intently to even the most ordinary of sounds is a source of fascination and pleasure. There's something about making a recording that changes my perceptions about the…

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