If Brian Eno, Paul Horn, and Harry Partch collaborated in the caverns of an active volcano, they might come up with something like what award-winning artist, instrument inventor, and musician Ela Lamblin, with producer Tucker Martine and guest artist Vishal Nagar, has created on his new CD, Long Period Events.

This album takes its name from the work of volcanologist Bernard Chouet. Lamblin learned of Chouet’s work through a PBS documentary on methods to predict volcanic eruptions. Chouet discovered that the pattern of sounds coming from deep in the earth before an eruption create an occurrence of “long period events,” a sort of musical prelude to the main event, the eruption. When the long period events occur in rapid succession, a sustained signal results. The volcano then is literally singing its tune, its siren song: “I'm under pressure here. I’m going to blow at the top.”

Uncannily Lamblin invented his musical instrument the Violcano – a large resonating steel cone strung with piano wire strings, lik