Vom Label heißt es: “Myers is well known for his focus on feedback principles in music creation. It is true that this can result in shrieks of cacophony and siren wails, but not necessarily, as seen here. Delays and other processors are force-fed their own outputs via matrix mixers, samples are captured and looped randomly, and joined by various other electronic elements to create soft beds of abstract sound.” David Lee Myers lebt als Klang- und Medienkünstler in New York City. Mehr als sechzig Veröffentlichungen unter seinem eigenen Namen oder als Arcane Device liegen vor, dazu zahlreiche Kooperationen, unter anderem mit Gen Ken Montgomery, Merzbow, Toshimaru Nakamura, Asmus Tietchens und Dirk Serries. “Terrenus” ist bereits sein viertes Album auf Crónica und erscheint als CD sowie zum Download.

My earliest involvement with electronics in music was the introduction of tape delay units. They utterly fascinated me: take a moment of time and store it, move it about, bend it into different shapes. Unbelievable! I spent hours unearthing the possibilities. Years later, technological advances have allowed much more complex capabilities in this realm, and modern versions of the time delay have always been at the core of my sonic explorations. Thus, Time Displacement Music. Taoism, Buddhism, and even contemporary physics state that fundamentally, there is no time, that there is only an incomprehensible eternally existing now, which we have little to no understanding of. But as a composer, I play with time. Unlike painting, for instance, all music is time-based. This creates a conundrum: if time does not exist, what is a composer working with, working upon? I cannot give a meaningful answer, but continue to play”. Das Album erscheint als CD und zum Download bei Crónica.

Im Kontext von Myers aktueller Arbeit ist das Wort “an apt description of a composer producing sounds from a world unseen, electronic music formed from electrical signals—microscopic entities or forces the real nature of which he or she may only guess”. Die sieben neuen Tracks entstanden alle auf der Basis rohen Feedbacks, “untamed electron flow incited by sound processors being fed into themselves. From these primary, nearly random impulses, many stages of manipulation follow—effecting, reversing, editing, layering—until a more or less rational result is achieved, at least in the mind of the composer”. Das Album erscheint am 15. Mai auf CD beim hauseigenen Label Pulsewidth.

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“I am not an advocate of “music for meditation” and in fact believe that to be a completely misguided notion. However, I have observed that some audio constructions seem to encourage a posture of staying in the moment. This has proven to be a fascination over time. As I began the present sonic explorations, a quote from metaphysics scholar Frithjof Schuon kept coming to mind: “You must detach your life from an awareness of the multiple and reduce it to a geometrical point before God.” Certainly, Schuon was not referring to any particular Judeo-Christian vision of a supreme being, but rather, whatever ultimate creative force of the universe which must exist. So becoming “reduced to a geometrical point before God” was a concept that resonated for me while working on the pieces.

That said, as the tracks developed I, as usual, gave them temporary working titles, in this case, Geo 1, etc. After a time I suddenly realized that the designation Geo implied a reference to our Earth and that this could suggest an additional meaning to the music. There is this geometrical point, but also the greater context of the world at large. Could these sounds remind one of the microcosmos and macrocosmos simultaneously? I hope not a pretentious assertion.” (David Lee Myers)

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