I wrote this because I started to think about how abstract time was. It's repetitive, predictable, but the concept of time is completely abstract and thinking about it created a bit of tension. This song is a tiny bit out of my comfort zone as well, but was still really fun.

Entanglement

I started to play around with a more percussive sound on acoustic. It's something I'm still learning but I'm kind of growing to really enjoy it. The only thing I could think of while playing and recording this was the constant string tap, which reminded me of one of those old school perpetual motion machines.

Perpetual Motion

This song is about the value of maintaining an objective mindset when going into difficult conversations. It's something I have learned over the past couple of years due to a conversation I had with a friend who happened to have much different views than me.

I tried to show this through the music with harmonics and whatnot on both the left and right channels. You can listen to the song with only the left channel on, but you will only get half of the song. Go to the right channel only, and the same thing will happen. Listen to both sides, and you can hear the entire song, as harmonics whatnot compliment each other from left and right sides.

Harmonic Objectivity

This is the song that made me want to write an instrumental in the first place because of how fun it was to write. It's meant to cover imperialism and the varios stages of World War 2.

Bismarck

Night time has always been the hardest for me in terms of anxiety. This song is meant to cover the various stages of emotions felt when laying awake. Everything from calm and serene to hectic and erratic was intended to be covered here, so hopefully the music reflects that.

Mike McCleary

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