- 1A New Day
- 2Steam On The Pond
- 3The Yearn
- 4Clouds At Angels Gate
- 5Estimated High
- 6Waste Management
- 7Digital Detritus
- 8Loading Zones
- 9Indelible Remnant
- 10Gentle Unmeshing
- 11The Brook, Pt. 2
- 12when we took a couch onto the frozen lake to watch the supermoon
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"...these heavenly zones hide a shiver of discomfort." - Bandcamp
Produced while recovering in bed from surgery, Post-Op is a wide-ranging album of dreamy, gauzy ambient and downtempo electronic music that evokes the emotional arc of the healing process. Reflecting on its creation, he says:
“I was lucky to be able to take some short term leave to recover from a surgery...a rare chunk of time off where basically all I’d be doing was lay around. I had wanted to use some of that time to work on music. I definitely underestimated the pain and energy drain of recovery, but once I felt up to it I started pulling up my laptop in bed for short stretches of time to try get something started.
I found myself creating and connecting with simple soft loops. Since I didn’t have a lot of energy or capacity for making multiple parts anyway I stuck to the basics: volume, timing, filtering, layering, etc. While obvious, it was funny how an abrupt change in routine or sensations correlated to (simple but profound) changes in process. For example, it had probably been years since I’d turned the grid off while working in Ableton.
Even after healing up I found myself making ambient music during trying times throughout the year. It felt like classic cathartic creation.”
DJ Immaterial is also one half of the duo Immaterialize with Chicago-based artist Lipsticism.
Produced while recovering in bed from surgery, Post-Op is a wide-ranging album of dreamy, gauzy ambient and downtempo electronic music that evokes the emotional arc of the healing process. Reflecting on its creation, he says:
“I was lucky to be able to take some short term leave to recover from a surgery...a rare chunk of time off where basically all I’d be doing was lay around. I had wanted to use some of that time to work on music. I definitely underestimated the pain and energy drain of recovery, but once I felt up to it I started pulling up my laptop in bed for short stretches of time to try get something started.
I found myself creating and connecting with simple soft loops. Since I didn’t have a lot of energy or capacity for making multiple parts anyway I stuck to the basics: volume, timing, filtering, layering, etc. While obvious, it was funny how an abrupt change in routine or sensations correlated to (simple but profound) changes in process. For example, it had probably been years since I’d turned the grid off while working in Ableton.
Even after healing up I found myself making ambient music during trying times throughout the year. It felt like classic cathartic creation.”
DJ Immaterial is also one half of the duo Immaterialize with Chicago-based artist Lipsticism.
