Behind “Freedom”
“Freedom” started the way these do — play, at an odd hour.
Between the notes I left in as much surreal titles as I could.
That is all it wants to be.
Andromeda WX // experimental new age · calmaphone
“Freedom” started the way these do — play, at an odd hour.
Between the notes I left in as much surreal titles as I could.
That is all it wants to be.
I don't choose calm; it keeps choosing me.
The calmaphone found the shape before I did; I stayed out of the way.
If it slowed you down for forty minutes, it did its job.
“Magic Calm Phone” came from play, and then refused to leave.
I wrote it at the calmaphone, mostly late, mostly by deleting.
It isn't a message — it's company for a particular hour.
That's it.
minimalism · ambient music · folk song · early music
An invented instrument — the Calmaphone — and the playful calm it insists on.
Works in experimental new age. One calmaphone. Not much else.
Circles the Calmaphone. Avoids calm. Releases quietly: “Freedom”, “Magic Calm Phone”.
In the lineage of minimalism · ambient music · folk song · early music