Lixiviation

"Lixiviation" opens the anthology at 4:12. A WFMU playlist comment describes it as a film score for the sculptor Ronald Mallory's abstract film of his moving mercury sculptures, and Discogs credits it as Lixiviation (Ronald Mallory Art Film Collaboration). The Line of Best Fit says it features Don Buchla's modular synthesizer, the Buchla box, with huffs and puffs. A search summary of a 2012 NPR interview has Ciani saying the word was coined for the film project, which visualised mercury's movement; we could not read that page, so we do not rely on it. No source dates the track, and the film's date is unknown.

A 2014 event at Unsound in New York was billed Lixiviation: Suzanne Ciani and Neotantrik and Pietnastka, seen only as a search snippet. WFMU's Morricone Island played it on September 27, 2016. We found no studio credit, charts, video, covers or samples.