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- Biophelia (2003)
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ROBOEROTIC
This
is probably one of my most fun works to date. It started with
a very simple bass line that somehow managed to draw everything
else out. The relationship between organic and electronic processes
is a subject that fascinates me. Computers can be sexy, and sex
can be robotic (if it's not done right). At one point this piece
was used as a soundtrack to a puppet piece that featured wire-frame
robots having sex while a demented tech-support voice ranted about
hammers and nails (thanks to my friend Nathaniel for that one).
Elizabeth Terry provided the violin parts at the end.
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THE PERSISTENCE OF LOVING
This track is about the cyclic nature of relationships and the ability
of love between two people to persist through the often painful
vicissitudes of human drama. The opening notes were the seed of
the entire piece. In hindsight, I realize that these swelling tones
represent the breath, which in it’s eternal expansion and
contraction reminds us that the Divine breath of Love is the foundation
upon which all the worlds exist. |
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AND THEY SHALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES OF FIRE
In recent years I've spent a lot of time exploring electronic
dance music, particularly Goa or Psychedelic trance. I’m
fascinated by the unique sounds, shifting timbres, and trance-inducing
rhythms of this music. Many of the tracks on Biophelia are the
result of my explorations into these realms.
The title of this track describes the section at the end and the
images it elicits in me. These include ideas such as the Christian
Pentecost, the visionary experiences of Terrence McKenna, and
the predictions of Rudolph Steiner that in the future, humans
would sing their young into being.
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IN THE SHADES OF YNIS WITRIN
This is the one piece on the album that I would properly call
a "psy-trance" track, and it's also one of the darkest.
The name draws from the mythology of the grail stories, and particularly
from the novel The
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.Ynis Witrin ("Isle
of Glass") was the pre-Christian name of the Tor at Glastonbury,
the mountain reputed to have once been the Avalon of legend. This
piece is about the dark magic of the faries, and the lands where
one might spend an hour enrapt in their charms and come back to
find that many years have passed.
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CALL TO PRAYER
Call to Prayer is an arrangement of two traditional invocations:
The Islamic “Athan Al-Fajr” (Call to Prayer) and the
Hebrew “Reader’s Kaddish”. This piece was arranged
and first performed during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. At the
time, I was thinking a lot about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and of the common spiritual heritage the two peoples share. Call
to Prayer features the voices of Ambra Lionstone and Egg Syntax
(Glossolalia).
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