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released January 8, 2021

Finally had the chance to sit down and record after a busy couple of months and wound up with exactly what I’ve been trying to do with this project since I started.

For some background here is a short description of my journey to this point.

I started computer at a difficult time in my life, this project has grown with me and I think its evident in the evolution of the sounds. I tried to create something of my own from the bottom up; so taking inspiration from Luigi Russolo’s art of noise, musique concrete, and John Cage I broke down what I was doing with the guitar to its most basic elements. The idea was this project was a fresh start, a rebirthing even, not just musically but for me as a person. The first computer recordings were mostly pure drones essentially created from tape loops of the guitar intended to sound like the industrial environment surrounding us all.

From there I added a sampler with more loops and a loop pedal for my guitar and fed them through a mixer. The idea back then is I wanted something that built upon itself creating tension until it was pure noise. I would then recycle samples from previous recordings and process them to resemble something new. Conceptually the process was supposed to emulate emergence, a process of coming into being. This to me represented everything happening to me and around me in the world. The idea stuck when I cut out using the tape loops and sampler, the reasoning behind this was wanted to boil the guitar down to essential components even further.

When I listen back to older recordings I visualize where I was in life. For me the biggest switch was evident when I started to pursue trauma therapy to deal with pain I had been carrying with me for some time, the details of which I prefer not to discuss with anyone but close friends and family, but know this: this played a huge role in the development of my sound. It was around this time I minimized I experimented with just the loop pedal, alternative tunings, and different preparations of the instrument. The recordings from the start of my therapeutic journey remain some of my favorites, here it felt like a lot of what I was doing was solidifying into something that had shape.

Around this time I focused more on trying to emulate the sounds of nature building into the sounds of industry, but it is also definite that in some ways these recordings acted as snapshots of my life. The concept of emergence had never left my mind, in fact it was just coming into form.

After graduating from a tascam eight track to the computer I began to desire form in my compositions. I begun to work on a sample pack of my guitar intended to sound like a drum machine. The first experiments were trial and error, noticeably sounding like straight guitar, but after some time they begun to sound like an actual drum machine! Now with my successful trails of subtractive synthesis it was time to put this into use. I started with just motorik beats, having the guitar being the only sound that built upon itself, though later I was able to find ways to represent emergence from building up loops of the guitar based drum machine samples, the process didn’t start to reach full form until I started to resample recordings again.

Using the entirety of my five years of Computer recordings I made sample packs of old recordings and stacked them on top of each other creating beautiful soundscapes that I would process it with built in effects on ableton and max.

Now after five years I’m in a much better place mentally and much closer to what I sent out to making in this journey of process art. I still feel there is more room for exploration but I have solidified the general structure and process of Computer. Computer has been a healing process for me and I thank all of those who have listened, collaborated, and supported over the past few years. I really appreciate everyone who has helped make this project what it is. Thanks for the past five years everyone!

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