The album Environs I developed concurrently with these notes over the past year.
Certain developments will be apparent to the reader and listener. While retaining the sustained atmosphere as being conducive to introspection as well as contemplative observation and enhanced perception, the piece emerges over the course of five sections, or movements if you prefer, each contributing variations in tone and mood to the total effect.
Additionally, rather than creating juxtapositions of sounds with the intent of encouraging consideration of specific ideas, events, and imagery, these musical elements were chosen and arranged in ways so as to heighten the beauty of the listening environment itself, regardless of setting or conditions.
Environs I, then, is the first album in a planned series broadly envisioned and designed for place and perspective.
From No. 21 in G#m, "Environs I": 1. Observation (13:58) by Black Mountain School
Certain developments will be apparent to the reader and listener. While retaining the sustained atmosphere as being conducive to introspection as well as contemplative observation and enhanced perception, the piece emerges over the course of five sections, or movements if you prefer, each contributing variations in tone and mood to the total effect.
Additionally, rather than creating juxtapositions of sounds with the intent of encouraging consideration of specific ideas, events, and imagery, these musical elements were chosen and arranged in ways so as to heighten the beauty of the listening environment itself, regardless of setting or conditions.
Environs I, then, is the first album in a planned series broadly envisioned and designed for place and perspective.
From No. 21 in G#m, "Environs I": 1. Observation (13:58) by Black Mountain School
