Album Notes

The digital and the organic have always fascinated me. The former captures every tiny aspect of sound, ignoring nothing. This complexity affords a musician enormous power over the music they create. The latter is the result of direct contact between the instrument and the musician. Each touch returns a tone. This simplicity affords a musician the opportunity to create in the rawest sense of the word. But what happens when the digital and the organic meet? This is the concept behind these recordings. I wanted to explore what effect a primitive digital recorder would have on purely organic sounds. What colors and overtones would be added? What would be lost? The contents of this CD was recorded using a Dell Axim handheld computer placed above the keyboard of a baby grand piano. None of these songs were planned or pre-composed. All the melodies you will hear were completely improvised. These sessions were subsequently downloaded off the Axim and manipulated in the studio. It is my hope that the results are an intriguing example of the marriage between simple digital recording and organic sound. B. Hudgins Abstract Audio Systems engineer July 2005 Review from The One True Dead Angel: This is a concept album of sorts, exploring the use of a "primitive digital recorder" to record "purely organic sounds" (in this case, a baby grand piano), and not a long one at that, but don't let that scare you off. The sounds on this disc were further processed in the studio (mainly in the form of adding lots of reverb, from the sound of it), The tracks begin with basic melodies and simple rhythms played on the piano, and are overlaid with strange droning noises and other piano tracks to give them more depth, but the playing is so sparse that even the more layered pieces retain a tremendously spacious feel. The results are spare and melancholy; the only album I can recall sounding like this would be the obscure Thymme Jones album WHILE. Interesting stuff, and the short length keeps the concept from growing tedious.