SPACE ON EARTH VI
Recorded between 2019 and 2023 this is the sixth release in a series of ambient, drone, devotional works.
Instruments: Yamaha EW-20, Moog Subharmonicon, Critter & Guitari Organelle M, Monochord, Hydrasynth Explorer.
Effects: Empress Effects Echosystem, EHX Talking Pedal, Chase Bliss Habit, MU-TRON Phasor III.
More details here.
20200501
shortly before the coronavirus started to fully hit nyc i recorded a work for piano and delay effects. it was building upon some previous compositions, and was inspired by the great minimalists as much as by a desire to embrace a more emotive style.
i've been holding onto it waiting for a rainy day, which, as it happens, was yesterday.
eventually these bookends will extend, folding more into and out of themselves, but for now i'll leave them here with you as they are now, as two small markers of a particular time.
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dedicated to all the healthcare professionals, essential workers, and those effected directly and indirectly by COVID-19.
all proceeds will go to the globalgiving coronavirus relief fund.
released May 1, 2020
SPACE ON EARTH V
Simple sounds for complicated times.
The fifth in a series, this release inhabits a long and slow space that oscillates between hope and a certain kind of existential sadness; that the great expanse of time is either empty or infinitely full. Or, just maybe, both of these states are paradoxically and simultaneously true.
…I imagine one might hear these sounds in an empty, post-apocalypse wellness center. But like, not in a creepy way; a way in which the residue of our psychic energy is coagulating as it prepares itself for the next journey of consciousness in the universe.
Some production notes: Many of the tracks (1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and both bonus tracks) were composed and recorded entirely on an iPhone, using Audiobus and a variety of plugin apps. The other tracks were recorded in my home studio with a minimal setup including tongue drum, Yamaha EW20, singing bowls, Korg Minilogue, vocals and a couple effects/looping pedals. All production was done by me.
Inspirations/for fans of: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Ana Roxanne, Michael Stearns, Ariel Kalma, Laraaji, frippertronics, Terry Riley, Steve Reich.
SPACE ON EARTH IV
spread your light.
available on cassette.
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Side 1: Korg Gadget with Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus), vocals (TC Helicon VoiceTone Harmony-G XT, Empress Echosystem).
Side 2: Korg Gadget with Echo Pad, Crystalline, and Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus).
Recording, production, and art design by Man.
Cassette manufacturing by Cryptic Carousel.
The Raga Project
The Raga Project is a 24-hour audio work that is synced to the local time of the listener. You can experience the project here.
The Akasha Model
The Akasha Model is an attempt to figuratively sonify the thoughts of every sentient being, throughout all history. The audio for the exhibited installation was transmitted via FM radio, and was created using a variety of analog and digital devices including synthesizers, software, contact microphones, a custom-built binaural microphone, and an EEG brainwave-reading device (alpha waves converted to hertz from five different meditations). Additionally, fluorescent glow-in-the-dark silicone casts of my ears were arranged throughout the space.
An eight-channel sound installation (mixed to stereo here) of field recordings from four locations in Manhattan, forming a square as a foundation for a home:
11th Ave & 23rd St
1st Ave & 23rd St
1st Ave & 57th St
11th Ave & 57th St
Feeling My Feed
Single channel video. Two-channel audio: Self hooked up to a Midi Sprout connected to a Korg VolcaKeys (for galvanic skin response), Drone Thing with delay effect, and passive electromagnetic microphones (Elektrouši) trained on an iPhone while browsing my Instagram feed.
SPACE ON EARTH III
Music for future aliens.
SPACE ON EARTH II
The second volume in a series of drone studies, this release was timed to coincide with Donald Trump's inauguration, to act as an ambient salve.
SPACE ON EARTH I
This is the first album from a body of work I've been hearing in my head since 2012. Around that time I was becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the nonstop onslaught of New York, so I started thinking about sound as a meditative and transformational medium; basically as a way to calm my eyeballs and counter-stimulate my brain.
The tracks included in the first volume of "SPACE ON EARTH" were sourced from a variety of places: "20160628" was recorded using Moog's Animoog iOS app; "MALI SADIO" includes a drawn-way-out clip of Kandia Kouyaté's "Badjourou" (which may or may not be about the legend of a friendship between a hippopotamus and a woman); and the last two tracks were sourced from telemetry recordings from NASA's Pegasus and one of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform satellites. The audio was manipulated primarily using GRM Tools and Audacity's "Paulstretch" effect.