Sound Design / Botanica

//
always breaking, always healing
all I tried to find was meaning
fill my heart and learn to let go
sacrificing all my being 

always healing, always breaking
I’ve lost track of what my age is
in this little lifeless meadow
I thought I could bring salvation
//

Thank you everyone for your patience and support while I pour the totality of my heart and soul into creating my album; it means the world to me.

always breaking, always healing

//

fetterless, be multitude
settle this and start anew
"bloom where you were planted"
can't you understand it?

written in sessility
come confess your life to me
untangle this becoming
won't you turn the right way?

//

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

re:Turning

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oh how I miss it all

//

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

catch it

//

bare granite
softly framed in seafoam
steeping in twilight

the rarity of weightless overcast
receding into previous day

I am pulled between the edges of then and now
complacently losing the battle

and I place a bowl on that granite
with water seeping through its pores
half-washed
porcelain in defeat

pray I go back down and think a way out
but the waking hours escape me
for once turn the right way,
you flake, you human life

thank the paper blinds for sparing you the shame
of months and months gone by

//

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

Equinox

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

Equinox (Prelude)

//

ˈUθ'θalaɪ & 𝒮𝒫𝐸
to be, my own self

//

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

Dream Extinction

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I want
more than a moment
I want a future

I want more than a moment
I am all that I’ve been
I want a future
living in the present, I’ve
let it all go passing by

// 

A note about "reasonsnotto": the synthesized voice is reciting text which has been randomly generated. This generation is governed only by a few simple phonetic rules; any likeness to any word in any language is purely coincidental.

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

reasonsnotto

//

who am I
a year gone by

//

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process.

36523_red/blue

Sutter

Nascent is about becoming:

The desire to become a better human being, longing to actively participate in the world around you, striving to actualize your potential, and finding meaning in this process. Over the past 4 years, these have all been things I've struggled to bring to fruition due to my own shortcomings. Nascent is the embodiment of all the emotions which emerged from this struggle.

Writing this album eventually became a source of this conflict. As I created the music which was supposed to help me find peace, I watched the rest of my life begin to atrophy. In many ways, Nascent is also about the writing process and its consequences. Despite this, I would like to believe I've come out the other end having grown because of it.

I am changing. I am learning to be willing, learning to take the shackles off. Who I am and who I want to be are starting to feel like the same person. It's been an insane journey and I am so grateful for it. Thank you everyone for your enduring support and patience. I hope this music finds a place in your life.

Q Windswept

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Valo. - Aborn

Valo. - Eternity

Valo. - Memories

Valo. - Celestial

Valo. - Essence

Valo. - Imaginary World

Valo. - Necessity

Valo. - And so on

I started writing this song in the spring of ’22. This time was spent listening to the music of Yuki Kaneko and Manuella Blackburn while immersing myself in the flowering local grasslands. I was struck by the delicate, secluded intimacy of Yuki’s album “rut”, the jaw-dropping detail of Manuella’s “Formes audibles”, and how this music accentuated the surrounding landscape. I tried to capture this feeling and the sense of renewal it inspired while honoring these wonderful artists.

https://alexanderpanos.com

art in collaboration with Zachary Schwadel
instagram.com/zschwadel/

includes a sample of the title track from "rut" (and/OAR, 2008) by Yuki Kaneko
instagram.com/yuki_kaneko_bd/
https://www.and-oar.org/moar_2.html
many thanks to Yuki for generously allowing its inclusion

aperture, for meadow

The release of this piece is also an announcement that I am in the process of creating my debut album, which includes and is represented by Cycles. It’s a long road ahead, but I want to thank everyone who has shown their support thus far. I can promise you the end result will be honest, captivating, and sincerely unlike anything you’ve heard before — this is just the beginning.

Cycles

I make experimental electronic music and art. 

Sound Design / Botanica

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