In 2015, I picked up my guitar and started vamping on the two main chords of Chick Corea & Béla Fleck's tune Spectacle, from the album The Enchantment. I recorded the vamp, looped it in GarageBand, and started adding musical elements over it. Over the next few days, I couldn't stop finding new musical sound sources to add to the tune. In this purely acoustic tune named Village Green, the sounds come from a variety of instruments and items I found in my room, from piano strings to bubblewrap. From a comb, to the rushing and still waters of Minnesota & Indiana lakes, rivers and waterfalls.

The other "Immersion Music" pieces, I created in 2016 and 2017, using my Kawaii Grand piano and Casio-CGP700 keyboard to create most of the sounds, along with my drumset and bass. I do basic editing in GarageBand. This music does not have any discernible melody or voiceline: the music is the voice.

Much like Ravel's Bolero, this music is more of a meditative exercise, an endless introspection into the the harmonic substrate that underlies music. 

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Enjoy!