USR #024 [the lee of the stone - the digital river EP]
“The name ‘The Digital River’ comes from Richard Dawkins’ book River Out of Eden. In the book he describes DNA as being the ‘digital river’ of all living beings’ information. No matter how many ancestors you have or whatever changes, physical or mental, the genetics are still the same building blocks, just reconstructed different. I believe the same can be said of music as well. There often are people who say that music made with computers or made in nontraditional sense (I focus this at the classical and instrument-only focused crowd) isn’t music. How is that so? This recording uses guitars, ukelele, flutes, and didgeridoos, all of which are instruments that have existed at least 100 years. There are also amplifiers, microphones, mixers, and wires, used in most music for the last 75 years. These are not new or unheard of inventions. I create the music in the pre-mix with actual instruments. However, the bottleneck in which this music passes and changes is the combination of what’s going on in my head with this music and the mixing process. The mixing process is just as important as the performance, any engineer will tell you this. It is also as asethetically pleasing and complicated. Music isn’t just the performance of one or many instruments, nor just the sound engineers… It’s both of these things.”
- emperical stewing
- a small burst of anger
- if aboriginies were beatboxers
- nested sorrow
- limestone reverberation
- jingle bells is finished
- heart bowed down (transmission captured on late night fm from an alternate new orleans)
- silver side up