World Of White Ice “Who Can Pave The Ocean For Me?” CD (self released)

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“Who Can Pave The Ocean For Me?” is a 66-minute journey of texture worship and dream-like sequences. Emotional, yet too cloudy to really parse out what the emotion is. It smells like minimal music when you’re a bit zoomed out, as it can be hypnotically repetitive. But zoomed out, the music seems to be constructed with the help of nanobots. (I’ve programmed them to facilitate an illusion.)

Yes the music is meditative. But I would not advise meditating to it as a mindfulness practice. Potential objects of meditation will become too nebulous, and so trying to focus on one may heighten symptoms. Which symptoms? Just symptoms, in general. WCPTOFM is a voyage of sorts, but it’s hard to tell if you’re stuck in a loop, or if the environment is actually changing.

On this album I channel weird or ??? inner-experiences I had in my teens and 20s (when I didn’t know myself very well). Although this is instrumental music, those memories—many with a strong somatic quality—are what this music feels like when I hear it, or think about it. At times, it was like there were so many tiny pieces of thoughts wsith soft edges jittering around that they blurred together and seemed to take on strange shapes I couldn’t quite make out but will never forget.

On “Teething,” the song titles reference the filenames of audio I used on the album. I wanted to anonymize the songs in a way, because when you’re teething, things are very simple and primitive. But on “Who Can Pave The Ocean For Me?” I’ve lifted pieces of old lyrics and diary entries for the titles to spell out a story that only I understand. And I barely understand it.