"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle

Sound design created on a Korg MircoKorg Synthesizer. All sounds developed, manipulated and recorded using the Korg.

Created May, 2008

A Flicker Of Innocence

Created to help awakened wanderers find healthy and hopeful outlets. People rarely find relief from their perceptual suffering, especially in Western society.

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)

In the first few weeks of an infant’s life, I like to think they see the world for what it actually is. No one has told them how to see this or that. Instead, there is a complete lack of symbols, stereotypes, background information or personal beliefs to taint what is actually there. The baby is viewing true reality, taking it all in, and in the process creating his own reality – or more typically – the reality humans have created for him.

“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” - Alan Watts“
Distinction and identities may be so deeply embedded in our discourse and thought about the world whether this be because of their role in our practical lives, or because they are cognitively powerful and are an important aspect of the way in which we appear to make sense of our experience, that the theoretical challenge to them can be quite startling.” - John Mepham

In our own culture, I think it’s easy to get lost once a perceptual separation from the human reality occurs. Many see this altered perception as their inability to fit into their own culture and spin quickly into an extremely negative and hopeless mindset. To add fuel to the fire, many of these people start to use substances – usually governmentally created – in order to bring them back into an even more confusing fabrication of the already fabricated human realm. I believe the governmental “fixes” for “depression,” “anxiety” and the like are becoming more and more common because the Western world has few outlets in understanding these new forms of perception.

I’m working towards creating visuals and auditory stimuli that hopefully help in the absolute liberation to someone’s “depression,” the mental clarity to someone’s perceived “psychosis.” And I’d like to mix in a physical counterpart of healing through holistic tools.

“Man finds his freedom through faith in his own universe.” - Alan Watts

Music by: DUET FOR THEREMIN AND LAP STEEL
Visual accompaniment: nothing is reality
Voices: Gabrielle Drake, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski

i am reality . reality is me . reality is nothing . nothing is reality

A perspective from the homeless.

Created to help awakened wanderers find healthy and hopeful outlets. People rarely find relief from their perceptual suffering, especially in Western society.

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)

In the first few weeks of an infant’s life, I like to think they see the world for what it actually is. No one has told them how to see this or that. Instead, there is a complete lack of symbols, stereotypes, background information or personal beliefs to taint what is actually there. The baby is viewing true reality, taking it all in, and in the process creating his own reality – or more typically – the reality humans have created for him.

“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” - Alan Watts“
Distinction and identities may be so deeply embedded in our discourse and thought about the world whether this be because of their role in our practical lives, or because they are cognitively powerful and are an important aspect of the way in which we appear to make sense of our experience, that the theoretical challenge to them can be quite startling.” - John Mepham

In our own culture, I think it’s easy to get lost once a perceptual separation from the human reality occurs. Many see this altered perception as their inability to fit into their own culture and spin quickly into an extremely negative and hopeless mindset. To add fuel to the fire, many of these people start to use substances – usually governmentally created – in order to bring them back into an even more confusing fabrication of the already fabricated human realm. I believe the governmental “fixes” for “depression,” “anxiety” and the like are becoming more and more common because the Western world has few outlets in understanding these new forms of perception.

I’m working towards creating visuals and auditory stimuli that hopefully help in the absolute liberation to someone’s “depression,” the mental clarity to someone’s perceived “psychosis.” And I’d like to mix in a physical counterpart of healing through holistic tools.

“Man finds his freedom through faith in his own universe.” - Alan Watts

Visual accompaniment: A Faint Figure Of Carity
Voices: Mark, Vivek, Hobo Joe Solo, KCal 9 News

A Faint Figure Of Clarity

Take off to the sun, stay for a while, come back to a cool breeze and a marbled sunset.
Full Tracklist: www.heatherdaniels.net/manaray
Manaray Mixtape curated by Heather Daniels: www.heatherdaniels.net


00:00 California Sunrise by Dirty Gold
03:52 Mornin’ by Star Slinger
05:58 Eyes Be Closed by Washed Out
10:37 Lofticries by Purity Ring
14:30 Duet by Gonjasufi
17:32 Hip 2 Da Game by Lord Finesse
21:33 Wildfire by SBTRKT (Feat. Little Dragon)
24:58 Caves (Teebs Remix) by Nosaj Thing
28:06 Hex by The Night Beats
30:31 Desire Lines by Deerhunter
37:08 Sore Spores by BOBBY
41:43 Where You’ll Stay by Falcon Punch
47:14 No Where Else by Galapagos
49:48 Wilderness by Active Child
54:30 Baby’s Arms by Kurt Vile
58:15 Like The Wheel by The Tallest Man On Earth
1:01:49 Heat &amp; Hot Water by ARMS
1:05:24 Surprise Hotel by Fool’s Gold
1:12:07 Street Joy by White Denim
1:15:35 Five by Young Man
1:20:29 Amor Fati by Washed Out
1:24:50 Moon & Stars (ft. Devin The Dude) by Big K.R.I.T.
1:28:36 Poliomyelite by Staff Brenda Bilili
1:31:41 Before and After Light by CFCF
1:36:58 In The Dirt by S. Carey
1:42:03 The Preakness by Panda Bear
1:45:06 Rococo by Arcade Fire

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