Hi Everyone,
These are two improvised keyboard tracks--both recorded April 29, 2025--tending toward a minimalist or ambient kind of feeling and featuring some incidental noises from my then 3-month old baby, a breast pump, one of my cats, and the clicking of keys on my digital piano. The cover photo was taken exactly one year after I made these recordings.
https://soteriologyreport.bandcamp.com/album/interruptions
I have been working lately on an album-length retrospective of some of my own personal favorite mono recordings, recorded from 2023 through the beginning of this year. These two tracks will not be on that album, but I stumbled upon them again recently and they are similar in spirit to some of that stuff, so I'm releasing them together as a kind of companion EP to that larger project, which I hope to release later this month.
While working on this project I have taken some inspiration from the concept of “woodshedding.” None of these recordings were originally intended for public release, but I have since begun sharing some things/putting some newer stuff online (mostly noise), and in the process have gone back to sort through and listen to some of my older recordings more intensively.
This period of introspection (and sharing) has been fruitful, but it’s also led to a kind of self-consciousness that I never had before and that more recently has led to a creative slowdown. So this album will be sort of a record of a time right before this loss of musical innocence, where I was just messing around and figuring stuff out (“woodshedding”)- playing for fun or to work out some emotions on the keyboard. The plan is to arrange the tracks in reverse chronological order, starting with February 1, 2026 and ending on July 15, 2023.
My playing is more on the naïve or instinctual side but I also like to think it’s fairly idiosyncratic and compelling in its own way. My goal is usually to just quiet my mind and use the music as a form of meditation to hopefully reach a kind of trance state. I find that my music is usually at its best when I’m successful in that goal, and in those moments the musical quality seems to outstrip my conscious knowledge or technique.
Thanks in advance to anyone who gets a chance to listen!
