Releases by green-house

Green House is an ambient electronic music project, primarily by the musician Olive Ardizoni, that is based in Los Angeles. The music they create is inspired by plants and aims to encourage a sense of empathy with nonhuman life. Ardizoni's debut record under the Green House alias, titled "Six Songs for Invisible Gardens," was released in early 2020 and sought to imagine what kind of musical patterns plants might like to hear, or conversely, what kind of rhythms and melodies might induce people to empathize somatically with plants. Ardizoni's second release, "Music for Living Spaces," continued this fascination with nonhuman life, using melody to imagine the interiority of organisms without a central nervous system. The songs don't merely use plants and wildlife as a backdrop to human activity; they are deeply entwined with our species and available to commune with us should we grant them the opportunity. The world rendered in these songs is not merely a setting for humanity, but a tightly woven mesh of interconnected movement in which we as people are lucky to find ourselves tangled. The music of Green House is unhurried, encouraging diffuse attention across its entire field. Ardizoni doesn't designate particular sounds as leads and accompaniment so much as they let dynamic and static melodies mutually support each other, giving each equal weight in an abundant expanse. Ardizoni’s sense of pacing is one of their greatest strengths as a composer, letting the natural arc of the work emerge over time. The music suddenly blooms when Ardizoni introduces their singing voice into the mix, creating a world that is already their home; all they have to do is ease into its path. The album's title suggests that the music is intended to be played in rooms where people carry out their daily lives. However, it also gestures to the idea that on Earth, there is no such thing as an unliving space. Green-House’s music invites you to consider yourself not as an isolated subject clawing against an antagonistic world, but as an organism among organisms, a locus of growth and becoming, unweighted by directive beyond the urge to keep living. Most recently, in May 2023, Green House, described as a project of Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan, performed at the inaugural HORT/CULTURE salon event of the 2023 season in New York. The music of Green House is described as “a love letter to Japanese environmental music, 70’s library records, and early synth-based composers.” The songs were initially born from private compositions, then grew into a collection of songs for the inner lives of houseplants, and eventually became more densely detailed compositions but with the same verdant essence. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.