Unrelenting Light, by Ben Berry

Unrelenting Light

by Ben Berry

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1.	moiré 07:41	buy track
2.	bells 06:48	buy track
3.	poincaré 09:45	buy track
4.	chorale 05:59	buy track
5.	mescaline 07:17	buy track

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Complexity is often reduced to simplicity. But what happens if we resist reduction?

This music is my attempt to advocate for ways of thinking that do not collapse complexity into reductionism and polarization. It's also a love letter to aesthetics that advocate for the same, some musical and others not: moiré patterns, three-body problems, "method ringing", fugues -- all bastardized by my improvisational approach to music-making.

If this sounds intentionally conceptual, it's because it is. But ultimately, my guiding principle was to try to make the music that I hear in my head. In that, I feel I've failed -- but I feel I've failed well, and in failure there's room for yet unheard voices to emerge.

I hope this music sits in you and makes space.

credits

released March 11, 2023

Ben Berry -- all instruments and compositions, mixing.
Jonathan Kirchner -- mixing and mastering.
Matt Goff -- album art.

Special thanks to Jonathan Davis for project managing and keeping me accountable.

Extra special thanks to Anna Adamski for seeing me and loving what you see.

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