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This Time Times
Lost Waves →27 listeners276 plays
ambientinstrumentalelectronicexperimentalelectronica
about this album
"I see making music as spiritually essential, but an essentially privileged escape from the ordinary challenges of work and more practical commitments and responsibilities. At the end of the day I can’t wait for that hour or two when work is done, the baby is asleep and I can put on headphones and lose myself discovering new sonic worlds. In college before I really focused on making electronic music, I played bass in an instrumental trio with skeleton song structures — basically noisy, meandering, dark funk. We’d perform for as many hours as possible without pause until our bodies failed us (blisters bloodied, carpal tunnel arms frozen) or our audiences got tired or bored and left. I also studied composition, recording techniques and experimental music while playing Gamelan and upright bass in traditional Western orchestra. These experiences challenged my ideas of what music 'should' be. Eventually my values shifted from precision and virtuosity to a curiosity for the uncomfortable and unpredictable possibilities of sound and a search for the intangible moments when you start to hear things differently. I don’t mean to be too heady with this but I’ve come to appreciate that context and intention matters. And I hope that at least some of this music taps into a common cosmic subconsciousness that resonates with other people. More of my vocal samples are layered throughout this album than previous releases, to actively place myself in the music, to make it subtly personal wi
