My family and I are flying to Manson, Iowa to spend the last week of October in total seclusion at my Grandparent's house. I can't begin to express how excited I am about this. I sense it will be coming at the tail end of a time of major transition for me.
I plan to bring my m-audio field recording device to collect sounds that can only be found in the Great Plains. Also, I'd like to record my Grandma playing with her Great-Grandson. That would be really cool.
I'll be putting the finishing touches on the Ambient project there, in a mental space I haven't visited in a few years. Total, complete quiet - no cell phone or responsibilities beyond eating, hanging out with grandparents and making music.
I'm originally from Iowa. I went to Sunday school there and reenacted Christ's birth with a cardboard manger set. I think I played a tree for some reason, I don't know, I was four.
I hope to pump out some additional material while I'm there, some red meat and potatoes electronic music that can only come from Calhoun County in a little town of 1500. Late October is harvest season in Iowa.
I hope that spirit permeates my musicality through osmosis. For those who care, here's a link to Manson, Iowa...home of Greater Crater days. They think that whole part of the state sits in the crater that was made from the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Check it out...Manson <link>.
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