Places to be

 

„maybe  it makes more sense to count time in breaths rather than minutes? how many breaths is okay for the algorithm then? what is the value of your breathing? i think we still know very little about the time ~ but hope this music can help with that.“

What a wonderful suggestion that Tim Six, whom I greatly admire, has put forward for his latest release, "Time to be (Vol. 1)." The breaths you take while listening to this wonderful record will be few; they will be deep and calm rather than hectic. Breathing has always been of great interest to me. It's not just the fact that we all do it, but the awareness of it and the realization of the influence it has and can have on our lives that makes it so interesting. It serves as a metaphor for life itself, how we live and shape it, or often fail to do so. Well, maybe everyone sees it differently. In any case, the music Tim creates here flows quite peacefully, just like my thoughts and breaths, accompanied by birds and a nature that is not directly visible but always tangible. Wonderful release on Aural Canyon, which will come as no surprise to the connoisseur.

These two "sonic environments" came to life as sort of an opposition to the modern trends of shortening track durations in order to please the algorithms, in hopes to win the attention lottery. we all know that "time is money" and we always try to "spend" it wisely ~ that's why all music is ambient now, it goes in parallel with many other things. and this music is ambient too, in classic Eno's definition ~ as ignorable as interesting (i hope) ~ so i'm not trying to force anyone into listening to it closely, as "deep listening" either. what i'm trying to explore here is the possibility to perceive time differently, not as a currency but more like a space. space to simply be in, without quantifying and measuring it. we live in the ocean of air and all the sounds we ever hear are waves inside of it. used to measure and value these measures of time, we, perhaps, forget that time is also an art form in itself. fluctuation of the same environment we breathe in and breathe out. maybe it makes more sense to count time in breaths rather than minutes? how many breaths is okay for the algorithm then? what is the value of your breathing? i think we still know very little about the time ~ but hope this music can help with that.

-From the Bandcamp Site-