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Direwires & Freder
6+ albums
ambientminimalsoundscapesatmosphericrobotopera
about
Sleeping Near Highways is a special collaborative album featuring Freder and Direwires, inspired by the experiences of travelling and sleeping in cars along highways in Northern Ontario. Available for free download at the Robotopera netlabel. Direwires is the work of Adam Young (b. 1983) - the summary and continuation of a strand of music and audible ideals that has been consistently developed and contributed to during Adam’s past ten years of composing and producing various electronic-based musical works. While Adam has been delving deeper into his ambient body of work since his very first weeks spent exploring the creation of music, The work of Direwires truly began a few years ago, inspired by the music composed by Koji Kondo for the video game "Ocarina of Time" (Zelda 64). It began with the arrangement of short segments of sampled choir voices and instrumentation from old dusty records and books-on-tape. Finding increasing inspiration from the dramatic effects of traditional film scoring and an interest in applying the analogy of "film scenes" to real life scenarios, Adam started taking his own music more seriously, and ambitiously took to deeper, more involved means of composition involving field recording and the manipulation of recorded human voice. After a couple years of weaving together entire faux-choral compositions, the first Direwires piece publically available ("If There Ever Comes A Day...") had been released through Moodgadget as part of the label's debut
