Pink Cotton Candy Records
Copenhagen-based indie label
“Luminiferous Aether” is the first single and opening track of Ignacio Córdoba and Agata Ciurkot’s album “Ephemeral, Basal”, out January 17th, 2025, via Pink Cotton Candy. This improvisation- based composition – blending jazz, ambient, modern classical and electronic music – is a romantic ballad that intertwines processed piano with repurposed industrial oscillators. In the realm of science, luminiferous aether was once understood as the medium through which light travels – a concept long abandoned. This composition seeks to invoke exactly that sense of light’s apparent wave-based ability to move through empty space, and the record as a whole becomes a metaphorical love letter to the lights and shadows of the unknown. An anonymous word triggers Ciurkot’s piano in a sonic vacuum and Córdoba’s synthesizer joins in with shimmering pulses and bass-heavy heartbeats. Together, the instruments and musicians converge, filling the space with bright, ethereal emotion, as if reaching a spatial plenum—a realm entirely suffused with luminiferous aether. Flares, echoes, sound waves, blinding lights, harmonies, reflections, and distortions weave in and out of darkness, culminating in a climactic coda of nearly doom-like piano chords and resonant 808 kicks. “Ephemeral, Basal” was recorded in Berlin and Copenhagen, the cities where the artists reside.
Ignacio Córdoba: Industrial Oscillator
Agata Ciurkot: Processed Piano
Mix: Ignacio Córdoba
Mastering: Francesco Toninelli
Artwork: Ignacio Córdoba