Landmass on Elemental Studies CD Compilation
Elemental Studies is a 4-channel film installation. The series of twelve b/w short films are individually scored by some of today’s most provocative sound artists. Several of the individual films continue to be showcased in international film festivals. Three years in the making is something of a collaborative labor of love, a melange of audio/visual synergy. This is most certainly the time in our history where we speak for the ailing Earth in a way that may take some afterthought, and action. The original score to these films is being released as a 2-CD set.
The first CD consists of scores to the films created by Darren McClure, Mick Chillage, Porya Hatami, Jos Smolders, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Vitor Joaquim, Simon Šerc, PBK, Schneider TM, Illusion of Safety, Massimo Toniutti, and Andrew Lagowski. Plus a bonus track by Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson.
The second disc consists of “re-works” of the tracks from the first disc by Alessandra Eramo, Faex Optim, Femanyst, Mariuca García-lomas, Liz Helman, Hilde Marie Holsen, Kokhlias, Fani Konstantinidou, Stephanie Merchak, Gaël Segalen, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Veryan, Marja-Leena Sillanpää.
Elemental Studies in Final Cut Magazine:
https://www.finalcutmagazine.com/post/elemental-studies-tj-norris-unveils-a-three-year-audiovisual-odyssey-on-climate-nature-and-the-fo
Landmass on Earbitten Radio:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Radboud/earbitten-19-sept-2025/
:zoviet*france opened their Saturday broadcast with Simon Šerc‘s powerfully earthy track Landmass on their show for Resonance FM called A Duck in a Tree. The show went live on 9/27/25 from 7-8PM (London time). Play it back at your leisure:
https://zovietfrance.podbean.com/e/a-duck-in-a-tree-2025-09-27-a-hunger-for-pictures/
Review in Igloo Magazine: “Some of my stand out moments on this are Simon Šerc’s “Landmass” with its careful walk through everything dangerous and sharp.”
https://igloomag.com/reviews/elemental-studies-carpe-sonum
Review in Cyclic Defrost: And we found catharsis, dissected or droney like on Andrew Lagowski’s ‘Wake’ or Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson’s ‘Resilience’, or with echoes of desolation blowing into nothingness on ‘Landmass’ by Simon Šerc.
https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2026/01/various-artists-elemental-studies-carpe-sonum/
10 Great ambient albums of Fall 2025 in Treble Magazine: Simon Šerc’s “Landmass” feels tectonic, PBK’s “Terrestrial” is ferric and muffled. “Fire” arrives in quick flare-ups: In parallel, Mick Chillage’s “Blaze” glows, as Schneider TM’s “Flare” crackles with filament bite.
https://www.treblezine.com/10-great-ambient-albums-of-fall-2025/
Review in Solenopole: Earth, next, does not merely ground the compilation—it fractures it. Landmass by Simon Šerc resonates like a tectonic plate on the verge of shifting: muffled bass, mineral scrapes, cracks ready to break.
https://solenopole.com/elemental-studies-various-artists/
