“Discovery is what guides my practice. That’s the core emotion,” New York based composer Arushi Jain tells Vanessa Ague in The Wire 482. “It is embedded in the different formats in how my brain works when I think about music, writing music, the discovery of the hardware, the curiosity around how this works or why it’s generating the kind of sound it’s generating.”

In her recent Wire interview modular synthesist Jain describes the environments and processes at play in her latest album Delight, and explains how the project aimed to bridge her many influences into one.

In order to share some of those influences with listeners she presents a Wire mix, which she describes as “myriad moods in 80 minutes, a reflection on the variety that has been on play lately. I was taught to learn by listening,” she continues, “and now that Delight is out in the world, I can exit my self-constructed sonic cocoon to cleanse my palette.”

Tracklist

Arushi Jain “Our Touching Tongues” (Leaving)
Sonmi451 “Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk” (Bandcamp)
Pole “Wipfel Dub” (KRAKE)
Oval “Over” (Uovooo)
Bitter Babe & Nick León “Ecotone” (Air Texture)
Doc Sleep “Enchanted Static” (Dark Entries)
solotape “mixed signals” (Seagrave)
Musclecars “Running Out Of Time” (BBE Music)
Jonny From Space “Live” (Incienso)
solotape “znv” (Seagrave)
Mabe Fratti featuring Gibrana Cervantes “Aire” (Unheard Of Hope)
Skee Mask “Cylo” (Ilian Tape)
Tyrel & CLAWS “Lover’s Acid” (Immortal Sin)
Rhyw “Casualty” (Seilscheibenpfeiler)
Priori “Oyl” (DJ Python Remix) (NAFF)
Lavurn “Steppin (Flipmode)” (SUMAC)
James K “Eiv Mude” (Incienso)
Terre Thaemlitz “Names Have Been Changed (DJ Sprinkles’ Deeperama)” (Comatonse)
Rob Noyes & Ryan Lee Crosby “Improvisation 3” (Cabin Floor Esoterica)
uon “Solaris” (West Mineral Ltd)
Prins Emanuel “Ruach” (Music For Dreams)
Nico Georis “Bent Violet” (Leaving)
Huerco S “Plonk I” (Incienso)
Katerina “Hello, It’s Me” (Post Bar)
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus “Item 11” (West Mineral Ltd)
J Albert “Track 2” (Studio 94)
Ali Akbar Khan & Nikhil Banerjee “Raga Misra Mand (1973)” (Connoisseur Society)

Read Vanessa Ague’s interview with Arushi Jain in full in The Wire 482. Wire subscribers can access the article online via the digital library of back issues.