Conduit

in 2013, my brother in law’s mother passed away from a very rare brain disease. it was pretty sudden and awful. i had a hard time finding the right things to say for the longest time and one night i was just feeling really upset by the whole thing and started playing guitar—not really playing, but not really not playing. at some point i switched on my tape machine and recorded this thing, this reverie. it was sent to him as a way of offering my condolences, as it was the only thing i could think of to give.

this idea was revisited recently when he and his wife had their daughter not long after. we got to talking one night and i asked him what he thought about me doing something cyclical with the track for his mom, in producing an additional track for his daughter. he was really excited about it and liked the idea of a companion piece.

these works are meditations on this exchange in his life, the old and the new.

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