New ambient / drone VA compilation from Mastery Quantum Sound

New ambient / drone VA compilation from Mastery Quantum Sound

MASTERY ANNOUNCES ‘QUANTUM SOUND’ COMPILATION AND SHARES DJRUM’S ‘COME FIND ME’

 
 

A Revolutionary Album and Sound Experience feat:

 

- A 20 minute sound meditation and breathwork piece by Jon Hopkins guided by Fearne Cotton available exclusively as the opening side on the vinyl edition.

- Brand new ambient and transcendental tracks from Djrum, Wata Igarashi, Manami, Jennifer Loveless, Ruthlss + more

- Music from Alessandro Cortini

- A 60-minute continuous mix and sound journey by Hannah Holland 

 

Mastery, London’s pioneering sound studio, with an array of live experiences and sound installations in its first two years along with co-founders, LWE., has stepped into the recording world. In collaboration with Houndstooth, Mastery announces ‘Quantum Sound,’ an album named after a project playing with the boundaries of sound as meditation and live electronic music, beginning with live experiences featuring founding artists, Cherub Sanson, Tim Wheater & Daniel Avery. 


Now announcing an ambitious new album exploring sound as a psychedelic catalyst and redefining the future of sonic meditation. Released on 12th February via Houndstooth, this first-of-its-kind project interlaces sound meditation, breathwork, neuroscience, and ambient electronic composition. 

 

Mastery, founded in 2023 by music curator Bianca Mayhew alongside LWE’s Will Harold and Paul Jack, has spent the last two years shaping a practice at the intersection of music, altered states, and scientific research. The Quantum Sound album is the next step in that evolution, a multi-artist, multi-sensory release designed specifically for eyes-closed listening, and an exploration of consciousness. “It’s time to turn the concept of meditation on its head,” says Mayhew. “So many people say they can’t meditate, but nobody says they can’t listen to music. Meditation comes with a lot of rules which can be intimidating. We want to offer sound as meditation, made by music masters, for the music heads. I’m captivated by the science behind it. Now we can finally begin gathering real scientific evidence for what people have through profound human experience for centuries.”

 

Released on a label known for championing experimental, boundary-pushing creators, Quantum Sound is one of the most innovative Houndstooth releases to date. Opening the vinyl edition is ‘Embodiment Breathing’, produced by Jon Hopkins and guided by Fearne Cotton — a 20-minute breathwork journey designed to shift attention from mind to body. Frustrated by the lightweight sound palette that dominates much breathwork music, Hopkins set out to create something heavier and more grounded — a slow, hypnotic techno piece that connects new-age practice and the club, two worlds that, in terms of consciousness expansion, he sees sharing far more common ground than is recognised. Flowing from this is a deep sound meditation designed for decompression and integration after the breathwork, built from extended drones and frequencies associated in research with calming, restorative physiological responses.


Also included is a 15-minute sound meditation by Cherub Sanson and Tim Wheater, created in collaboration with electronic composer Rommek. Titled ‘Bliss Code 000’, the piece merges the ancient and sacred instruments such as gongs, flutes, and crystal bowls, with mind-bending modular synthesis, exploring sound-induced altered states of consciousness. 

 
 

Additional contributions span ambient, and transcendental spaces, featuring Hannah Holland, Wata Igarashi, Manami, Jennifer Loveless and Ruthlss, along with Alessandro Cortini, whose ‘IV’ piece “seemed to stop time” at Mastery’s Quantum Sound show at Prospect in Bristol. A long-time but undisclosed collaborator, Silent Shadow, closes the album’s first half with its emotional peak. For full immersion, a bonus continuous 60-minute mix by Hannah Holland invites listeners to lie down, close their eyes and fully surrender to the Quantum Sound Journey.

 

The project grew from Mastery’s five-month Quantum Sound residency in fabric’s Room One, where Cherub Sanson and Tim Wheater performed live instrumental sound journeys that flowed into ambient electronic live sets by Hannah Holland, Wata Igarashi, Flora Yin Wong, Jennifer Loveless and founding Quantum Sound artist, Daniel Avery. The performances filled the room and its new body-kinetic dance floor with a unique blend of ancient and electronic sound, played to audiences lying down in complete stillness.

Alongside the album release, Mastery is launching a long-term research partnership with neuroscientist Oliver Durcan, Founder of Creative Empirical, whose doctoral work examines flow states in musicians. Researchers from Cambridge University’s Consciousness and Cognition Lab, Goldsmiths University and Johns Hopkins University, will collaborate with Mastery to study the neural mechanisms of sound-induced altered states. 

 

 

Vinyl Tracklist:

 

A1: Jon Hopkins - Embodiment Breathing (With Fearne Cotton)

B1: Cherub Sanson, Tim Wheater, Rommek - Bliss Code 00
B2: Hannah Holland - Ambient Chronolight 1 
B3: Djrum - Come Find Me

C1: Alessandro Cortini - IV
C2: Wata Igarashi - Mineral
C3: Silent Shadow - Red World

D1: Cherub Sansom & Tim Wheater - Stillpoint
D2: Manami - Sown
D3: Jennifer Loveless - If You Let It
D4: Ruthlss - Dark Angel
D5: Hannah Holland - A Door to Who Knows

 

Digital Tracklist:

  1. Mastery Quantum Sound (Mixed) 
  2. Cherub Sanson, Tim Wheater & Rommek - Bliss Code 000 
  3. Hannah Holland - Ambient Chronolight 1 
  4. Djrum - Come Find Me
  5. Alessandro Cortini - IV 
  6. Wata Igarashi - Mineral 
  7. Silent Shadow - Red World 
  8. Cherub Sanson & Tim Wheater - Stillpoint 
  9. Manami - Sown 
  10. Jennifer Loveless - If You Let It view
  11. Ruthlss - Dark Angel 

• 12. Hannah Holland - A Door To Who Knows