This track, ‘Refraction grid’, is one of my favorite pieces. It has a shimmering, luminous quality that remains constant through the various shifts from light to dark/heavy; it’s relatively simple; and it’s relatively short.

In addition to appearing as part of the Veiled Faces, Moving Shadows cassette, it was the first track on the Unit Circle compilation Nocturne Concrète. I’ve had my music appear on three compilation CDs (the other two were Mind/Body 3 and the Doppler Effect compilation Resurgence); Nocturne Concrète is still my favorite. Even though it covers a fairly wide swath—including ambient, experimental, noise, goth—it has the best overall track listing. Plus the artists got to design their own pages in the accompanying booklet; I got one of the color pages. And some of the connections I made as a result of that compilation are still in place today. As Martin Mull once said (on his album I’m Everyone I’ve Ever Loved, “Aren’t records a wonderful way of meeting people? I certainly think so—and that’s why I do them.” Okay, that wasn’t why I made recordings, but records can be a wonderful way of meeting people…

(8 April 2014)