Our music is entirely improvised. There’s no score and very little advance planning. There are no overdubs and little editing.
The result is meditative and oneirogenic (dream-inducing).
We are real human beings creating real music in real time. Nothing is AI-generated.
Personnel
Arlene Avery: Vocalizations, ass’t. small percussion, rocks, shakers, guiro, tongue drum, gong, leaves.
Glenden Merrell: Upright electric bass, electric bass, electric guitar, ukelele, large pedal board.
Jordan Saucier: Vocalizations, Korg MS2000 synthesizer, Taishōgoto, TC Helicon VoiceLive Touch effects unit.
John Schwenk: Haken Continuum Fingerboard (many sounds), electric piano (many sounds), iPad with Spacecraft app, ass’t. small percussion, recorder, harmonica, hand pan, DeepMind synthesizer, gong, slide whistle.
Recording, mixing, mastering, & video production.
In eastern philosophy, heart & mind have always been inseparable.
Western science is finally catching up.
Italian neuroscientist, Antonio DeMasio, points out that patients with a rare condition in which body-felt feeling tone is separated from higher mental functions are unable to think properly or make correct judgments or decisions.
Our mind needs to sense how our body feels in order to know wrong from right.
HeartMind fuses thought and feeling in an evocative aural flow.
This music is improvised. We sit down and we play. That’s it.
It’s not so much about notes, structures, harmonies, or rhythms
as it is about timbre, mood, texture, & feeling.
Allow it to wash over you and take you on a journey.