Quite a while back, I learned about a very interesting little machine entitled the Ambient Addition which was a thesis from an MIT student named Noah Vawter The purpose of the machine was to transform everyday sounds into musical notes. He had made the valid point that with the whole 'i' revolution (iTunes, iPod, iPad, etc.), the 'i' represented isolation. I actually downloaded the whole thesis, and gave it a very good bit of my attention. For some reason, there have been no other sort of things like this, and it seems that this idea turned out to be nothing more than an idea. Granted, there are a few apps that I had on my (old) iPhone, like the INCEPTION app as well as RJDJ. We can't escape the noise, but maybe we can take in what is there and process the good bits through our minds to keep us grounded.
Another mention that I have to make is of a book called HEPCAT. I've read this to my kids for years. I'm fascinated by this story of how a jazz cat learns to hear each sounds of the city as separate musical entities, until his mind creates the symphony of each noise, not unlike seeing separate colors and forming a picture. I'm not kidding when I tell that I've taken the story of this book to heart. Obviously, we all have. I'm not at all alone in being fascinated and creating and purchasing music that lives and breathes field recordings.
So that leads to the purpose of this mix. Weaved within the soundscapes are field recordings of the concrete jungle. We must find the balance between the two, and enable our being to coexist with that which we have created. Don't fight against it; rather, immerse yourself in the underlying sonic texture that turns chaos into control. I give you, the listener, equal amounts of city structure balanced by the sweet escape of encompassing sounds. Yin and yang. Pleasure and pain. We begin our journey in the concrete jungle and finish to a place within your mind that you create and find peace. Along the way we let go of the urge to resist the melding of the two worlds.
This mix would do well to help you reemerge into a world that is wrought with turbulent noises. Let the message from this set be that your universe exists in a 5 1/2 inch plane: the space between your ears.
Turn on, tune in, coexist and flow...
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waiting for the sun to arise
come on, let’s go!
camping under the stars volume 4 (revive)
daydreaming in a sea of stars
the sky is not the limit
illuminate
the world has not forgotten you
and the rain must fall
at the edge of this world
hibernation poems
dreamers, unite!
lullabies for the skyward soul
lifting the fog
sleepers, awake!
the universe within you
camping under the stars volume 3 (rebirth)
following the path of a dream (collaboration with cosmic caveman)
to find that place called home
mental drift vol. 2 (still drifting)
imagining your world from here
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