Drawing energy from the shifting sands of global music, sonic alchemist Temple Step beckons listeners on a sensory journey through movement, ritual, and binaural sound in his 2020 album, ‘Tribe.’ A fusion of influences bygone and new, this visionary offering invokes the spirit of ceremonial sound as it beams through the lens of tribal electronica and conscious dance culture, incorporating elements of global bass, organic house, emotive downtempo, and shamanic music into a dazzling tale of styles traversing the shapeshifting landscapes of time. Sewn with old-world instrumental work, mesmerising vocals, and surges of deep, undulating bass, Temple Step’s dynamic compositions balance force and elegance with a storyteller’s precision to unearth the magical, healing essence of world music as it bends to humankind’s unshakeable desire to move, meditate, and create across times luminous and dark.

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Watayana (Feat. Kailash Kokopelli) - Temple Step Project

𝔇𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔱 𝔟𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥 🛸

Desert Trax is a record label that believes in the transformative power of music. Our mission is to bring people together and bridge divides through the universal language of sound. Founded in 2005 by the Desert Dwellers duo, we have helped many emerging artists release their music over the years. From Porangui to Deya Dova, Mose to Jakare, we strive to support and elevate artists who share our vision of music as a force for unity and connection. Join us on this journey and let the sounds of Desert Trax take you beyond borders.

~~~ SOUL FURY ~~~ 
"This is how the heart sounds,
Do not change the melody,
this now, you and I, here together.
Let this being with each
other be heart-sound." 
~ Rumi & Tabriz COLLAB ~ 

All About :: The Art of Collage & Rhetorical Velocity

I am specifically interested in situations where composers anticipate and strategize future third-party remixing of their compositions as part of a larger and complex rhetorical strategy that plays out across physical and digital spaces. We find this type of thinking—the asking of “how might the text be rewritten?” and “why, where, and for whom might this text be rewritten?”—an increasingly important set of questions in a digital age characterized, for instance, by swift, easy, and deep web searching and by copying and pasting practices. 

COLLAGE ::  Artistic compositions of materials and objects pasted and/or sewn/woven over and through surfaces, often with unifying and/or juxtaposing structures, lines, colors, themes in order to create textured, alive, amplified spaces. 

SYNTHESIS (AKA Mashup): Creating Compelling Texts comprised of borrowed, reconstituted, and original material.

The art of creating such compositions.

An assemblage of diverse elements.

To paste and/or sew/weave (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

To create such an artistic product.

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