From Nothing (2023)
stereo / 5.1 fixed media
Harmonium with effects pedals & Landscape Stereofield
Recorded in Los Osos, California
Mixed in East Haddam, Connecticut
Program Note:
I moved to a new city this year. During this transition, I felt the empty quality that comes with a new place: furniture that doesn’t quite fit, old friends that are now distant, new friends that are not yet close.
In the gap between old patterns and new ones, I found myself playing long, slow melodies on the harmonium, sending them through looping, delays, and distortion so that I could immerse myself in these comforting sounds. In my recordings, I started to notice the qualities of my new environment: the wind in the trees outside my window, the cicadas singing seamlessly alongside the electronics. From a few notes, a world began to emerge from nothing.