towards a release

Last weekend I put the ambient pieces on CD and listened to them, propped up in bed, with a critical ear towards a release. A handful of them struck me as being not ready. (Yet good enough for a website?) As a result, 3 and 8 have been redone significantly. There are several more that require refinement.

Mid-week I made ambient 23.

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remixing/remastering sub-project

Originally I'd thought that, these being "ambient" pieces, the overall volume levels could be low. But as I made new ones I realized I was not observing that as a rule and that the pieces were never meant to be vague or slight or diminished.

I've been thinking of "ambient" in the sense of an association with something. When making these pieces, rather than focusing on something external, I have turned inward and let something come out. Those somethings seem to be brain states.

This sub-project is a way of affirming the on-going experience of what I've been making. It's a move to bring to anyone interested in the music a sonic clarity that better reflects those brain states.

So far I've remixed/remastered ambient pieces 1-21. One more to go.

Finally got around to 22. Sounds right to me.

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ZK project

My dearest friend, keyman, and I have embarked on a long talked about adventure. He's in Manhattan; I'm in Tokyo. We both use Sonar and have private servers to facilitate the transfer of large amounts of audio. Our basic working method is one part at a time, back and forth. We're committed to being totally open to whatever the other comes up with, including editing or rearranging received material.

The first track is done.

zk01

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breath and heartbeat

While making this one it occurred to me that natural musical rhythms reflect those of our bodies' mechanisms. Breath and heartbeat are the prominent ones, but I suspect the pancreas has a beat.

Natural rhythms are not locked to a beat per minute.

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ambient 19

Affirmation and denial. Not mutually or musically exclusive.

ambient 19

Meme to myself

Hobbit Sancho said: "gotta pick a nit, cuz memes often manifest themselves corporeally".

Those are corporeal afterthoughts.

Meme it

A meme is a creature of the human mind miming "creation" as it is perceived, processed, played with and regurgitated in acorporeal form.