"JOURNEYS IN ANALOG SPACE"
"Journeys In Analog Space" was recorded back in 2017. Before this, my main focus was writing; then came beats. If I wanted to write songs for an album, my old formula consisted of filling a cd with 60 minutes' worth of music with no pauses in between tracks and then coming up with words. This was the first time I had no intention of writing, so I wanted to let the talking samples carry the project along which is what happened. My writing and conceptualizing process has always been to record a bunch of beats onto a cd or preferably cassette tape and listen to it with a Walkman and headphones, walking down trails inside forests and creeks. Back when I first graduated high school, I went through a phase where I became very interested in meditation. I used to create mixtapes and go inside the "enchanted forest" behind my apartment complex tennis courts with a fold up beach chair and Walkman and practice deep breathing and concentration. This felt like making one of those tapes again for this project. I wanted this to be another chapter of the space people and the character Nicholas ether. The picture for the project was a photo taken inside my room and what it looked like with all my equipment to make beats with at that time. As you can or can't tell in the photo, I am wearing a mirror mask. The reason the character Nicholas Ether wears this particular type of mask is for a few reasons. The first reason is because he is more of an introvert than most so although he does his best to be around people, he prefers to be alone. The mask has a mirror like reflection because when you look into a mirror you see a reflection of yourself. That is the type of music that this character aspires to create; art that makes the listener look inside and learn more about themselves and why they look at things a certain way or perhaps think a certain way. The other reason is because the character wishes not to be judged by the way they look but instead by the way the music and art sounds and feels like and what images pop up inside the listeners imagination while listening. All tracks were produced using the Ensoniq ASR10, various other keyboards, programmed with the MPC 2000XL, and pulled from records and other random sources inside the space time continuum.
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