LumiPhon Studios
LumiPhon Studios is the official Sound Art, Sound Design, and Experimental Music production studio of Jeremy Santiago-Horseman (JS-Horseman). LumiPhon Studios emphasizes mixed-media recording processes focusing on methods and experimentation with analog tape, combining microphone and recorded object and space, modular synthesizer, and instrumental/orchestral composition, recording and production. The original, multivalent compositions from LumiPhon Studios have manifested as sound based installation art works, vinyl record projects, film scores, and collaborations/ performances with other artists and musicians.
Vinyl Releases
Agatha Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
When Directors Roland Becerra and Kelly Bigelow Becerra approached me to create the entire sound design and musical score for the film Agatha, I was quite honored because I felt like they understood me. To me, ‘sound design’ (environment in my definition) and music are structurally synonymous, and that’s what they wanted with their movie.
Mini story: as a kid, I had an experience on a summer day upon hearing several different lawnmowers moving about in the distance, framing a perfectly beautiful augmented chord, that would then resolve different sequences to major and minor sounding chords, then augmented again, as the mowers moved around in the distance. Add that to the chirping birds, buzzing cicadas, passing cars, and neighbors yelling about something, I had a full symphony, right in front of me. So, to reiterate: creating a sound “design” and a piece of music is the same for me. Roland and Kelly understood that about me when they heard my sound works, thus I was hired. However, I was scared at first because I knew this movie was dealing with some psychologically nightmarish, diabolic horror-based content, and I am afraid of my own shadow. But, what reeled me deeper into working with them on this project was how the dreamlike narrative reflects how humans can behave; how regardless of anyone’s point of view there is cause and effect; there are repercussions for decisions we make, and try to selfishly justify which can all lead to horrid realities on all sides of a circumstance. As a nightmarish dreamscape, this project has powerfully subversive qualities, and that’s what kept me sonically submerged in Agatha’s world.
The Professor & the Deranged Homeless Man
From Agatha, Original Motion Picture soundtrack, 2023, Orchestra, Synthesizer and Tape, Orchestra, Synthesizer and Tape, Album Cover: Roland Becerra
Introit
From Agatha, Original Motion Picture soundtrack, 2023, Orchestra, Synthesizer, Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording, Album Cover: Roland Becerra
12″ Vinyls Are now Available at: https://lumiphonstudios.bandcamp.com/album/agatha-the-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-volume-1
Digital Releases
A Knocking At The Door
Influenced by program music, A Knocking At The Door presents a sonic narrative where the implied characters in the story are represented by the sounds of musical instrument, analog synthesizer, tape concrete & microphone experimentation. This musical episode implies a narrative as reflection on the horror and anxiety of war, from a child’s perspective.
The Violin: A Daughter
The Piano: A Mother
Strummed Piano: suspicion & angst
Piano percussion: A Knocking Door
Cajon: Machine Gun & Bomb
Analog Synthesizer& Tape 1: Miscommunication of the Digital Ether
Analog Synthesizer and Tape 2: The Breath of Death
Credits:
Released December 12, 2024
Violin: Katt Hernandez
Piano, Tape Manipulation, Analog Synthesizer, Percussion: JS-Horseman
Composed and arranged by JS-Horseman
Violin parts improvised by Katt Hernandez
Digitally Mastered by Raffale Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Analog Mixed & Produced by JS-Horseman, LumiPhon Studios ©2024
The Sinking Sun
I take comfort in the movement of the sun.
There is nothing new under her jurisdiction.
The sun is sinking, slipping into silence, behind the horizon, our most primitive sense of balance.
The sun is sinking as it churns Red,
Spewing cinnamon and magenta
It burns my eyes and twists my foundation
Then, a drop of gold, a fleeting glimpse, a hope again, I count on this moment.
And, again under her jurisdiction, that moment, where hope arrives, consumes that which is nothing new.
That tapping, again!
Tapping on my skull, it spits in my ears and resonates within.
A final swell, sounds darker now as it slips underneath everything we know as balance,
And again, as always before
She asks her quiet question: What will tomorrow bring?
~JS-Horseman
Credits:
Cover Illustration: JS-Horseman, LumiPhon Studios ©2024
Experimental Tape Recording, Modular Synthesizer, Orchestra, Original composition by JS-Horseman
Part two of the IDIL Music Awards 2024, released by Unexplained Sounds Group ©Raffaele Pezella 2024
Window Songs
Tapping
Credits:
Window Songs, 2017, Reworked and remixed 2023
Experimental Tape and Microphone Recording, with digital and analogue Electronics
Mastered by Raffaele Pezella
Album Cover: Stephan Schmidt
Sysygy
Credits:
Window Songs, 2017
Experimental Tape and Microphone Recording, with digital and analogue Electronics
Album Cover: Stephan Schmidt
Monolude No. 6 (Caterpillar)
Credits:
2021
Experimental Tape Recording, Analogue Synthesizer
Album Cover: N Dobrodey
Polyphon No. 1
Credits:
2021
Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording, Analogue Synthesizer, Small Ensemble Orchestra and Piano
Album Cover: JS-Horseman
A Suite for Ten Habitable Planets
A Second Call
Credits:
A Suite for Ten Habitable Planets, 2019
Experimental Tape and Microphone Recording Soprano Voice: Megan Murphy
Tenor Voice: Robert Dunlap & Ezry Santiago Album Cover: JS-Horseman
Air Part II
Credits:
A Suite for Ten Habitable Planets, 2019
Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording
Album Cover: JS-Horseman
Architectures
D (eCf)
Credits:
Architectures, 2018
Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording, Analogue synthesizer Cover: JS-Horseman
Occulus
Credits:
ARchitectures, 2018
Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording, Analogue Synthesizer
Album Cover: JS-Horseman
Static Harmonies 1, F~Ba
Credits:
Architectures, 2018
Experimental Microphone and Tape Recording, Analogue synthesizer Cover: JS-Horseman
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Credits:
Twelve; A Series of Electronic Drawings for Tape, 2018 Synthesizer and Experimental Tape Recording
Album Cover: JS-Horseman
More Musical and Experimental Sound Works can be explored and purchased online at Bandcamp:
https://js-horseman.bandcamp.com https://lumiphonstudios.bandcamp.com
All Works Composed, Recorded, and Produced by Jeremy Santiago-Horseman
©JS-Horseman, LumiPhon Studios
