(Forthcoming in early 2026 on the Room40 imprint)

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From the donkey’s mouth (it’s me, I’m the donkey):


It’s been hard for me to begin writing about these pieces, as if to sum them up: they are misnomers to me, still, at the time of writing this. Maybe what I can start with, is this statement and possible provocation:

“Listening is 50% of all music.”

I’ve been mulling this idea over for some time now, as if to poke and prod at my own expectation and definition of what listening is supposed to look, or rather sound, like. Beyond a superficial dive into an academic hairsplitting between the definitions of “music” and “sound” lies something else; a lifelong tonic, we all return to: how does one make sense of the nonsensical? How do we make meaning in a fluctuating world? At which point in the ride does one claim one’s agency, within the musical realm and beyond? 

With these works I wanted to explore that hidden circle and question how long before my mind “makes music” out of the presented patterns. I wanted to attempt, maybe foolhardily, if I could observe the observer and catch my self in the act of making and attributing meaning to apophenic patterns. What was the threshold, that grey liminality, at which my own mind secretly decided that a given sonic pattern, composed with no concrete musicality in mind, became “music”? Maybe it is the tiptoe pointbreak at which my fluctuating auditory perception gripped the emergent sound and attempted to apophenically make heads/tails of what it was receiving. Maybe. 

In other words, there are no inherent melodies or preplanned musical structure to be found in this work. Any “musicality” present is wantonly implied and resultant through a series of psychoacoustically stereophonic manipulations (phasing, acoustic beating, EQing, etc.). What is however objectively present: a series of platonic possibilities, an oversaturation and satiation for listening ears and minds to become eddied to and within; an invitation to drift and mentally compose 50% of the album. 

At any and all rates, 

I hope you enjoy and get something out of it, this work. 

Thanks for reading, listening and for making meaning,

Ben