Slow Dancing Sky.WAV

Loop 4

Loop 5

Loop 6.WAV

Driving into the sunset to an ever-receding horizon.
Beauty tugging at heartstrings towards the unknown, to where home is.

Jeremy

And Her Each Here Is Such An Everywhere

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The way moonlight plays with her hair makes my soul blue

Sun-kissed Kaleidoscope

Ambient music for contemplative journeying.

“The Spaces Between” tiptoes around the idea of liminality, the idea of the threshold, the between of things, such as the silence between notes. There is something there that relates to the emotion of witnessing a sunset or sunrise, or when the sun shines through leaves. I am a translator for a living and that is also liminal in nature. Neither here nor there, yet both here and there. That is the mythological function of the Greek god Hermes, who “travels across the boundaries of this world and the world of the gods.”

The purpose of this musical project is to share mysterious things that are felt in the spaces between worlds. In the between of things, like the line enveloping the edges of forms, there are vast spaces, and one witnesses these spaces by projecting the line into depth. Dwelling on the threshold seems to reveal a shimmering beauty that is normally invisible, but commonly experienced when witnessing a sunset, or light filtering through the leaves of trees at sundown (komorebi in Japanese).

That mystery of the threshold, I believe, is why the beach is such a commonplace idea for a vacation destination. A special sense of peace is found on the beach, as the threshold between land and sea. There is something magical there, even for those who don’t consciously believe in anything invisible—as the beach naturally symbolizes and evokes the meeting of here and there, the reconciliation of two worlds; motion and stillness, immanence and transcendence, the transient and the eternal, earth and heaven.

A similar phenomenon seems to occur in photography or tape recording. There is something at the edges of things that is not immediately noticeable, like a horizon of depth on the contour, invisible unless we amplify it by giving it more attention; this happens for instance when an image or sound is filtered or degraded and light or sound breaks open on the edges into shimmering rainbow colors (think of the effect of a prism). In sound, this “rainbow” effect corresponds to the delightful warm harmonics produced by tape saturation, likewise evoking something mysterious and transcendent. My wish is to convey something of my experiences of that mysterious beauty through sound.