Maintaining a fragile balance: Their most accomplished and important work was yet to come.

A brief Celer Discography
Several of these albums are sure to stand the test of time and all of them are marked by distinct ambiances. „Discourses of the Withered“ (Infraction Records) is their romantic masterwork, a nocturnal fantasy of longing and yearning dominated by Danielle's deep, sonorous strings and a pervasive, consoling sensation of great calm and breath. Again, Basinski is an obvious reference, if only for the oceanic wideness of the work. But while the latter's oeuvre tends to feed from the way the essentially invariable material confoundingly changes in the perception of the listener, the long laments on „Discourses“ mutually reinforce each other, like mulling over the same ...

You are what you feel: Celer were tireless experimenters in terms of their methodology.

Intentions start to shine through
The Celer discography grew in sync with their honed craftsmanship and gradually, their intentions shone through ever-more clearly. Like Danielle's favourite poet Patchen would experiment with the inclusion of visual elements, Dani and Will would search for a unison between acoustic phenomena and lyrics, even if their music preferred the silent spaces behind the words over hands-down statements. Instead, introductory notes would provide for lyrical gateways and intuitive guidance. „Neon“, for example, carried an inscription by Baquet-Long containing a coded reference to the process at the heart of the recording, which involved the use of sensors and pulsing light:

A distrait table,
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2009-08-08

Hidden Messages and Open Confessions: A complete innocence of working for a public marked their early releases.

To Danielle Baquet-Long and William Long, nothing was more sacred than the arts. And yet, creating music was also a perfectly quotidian activity to them, a spiritual necessity as self-evident and natural as saying „I love you“. In their Huntington Beach-based home-studio, they would spend hours in front of their laptops doing just that: Telling the other they loved him more than anything in the world through sound, playfully leaving hidden messages and open confessions in the acoustic bottles drifting on the waves of their boundless tonal oceans. Music, to them, was a gift they would present to each other every day. It was also a way of following up ...