Alpha 3 Out Now!

Today my newest EP just went live. It is called Alpha 3 and is available for listening and purchase through Bandcamp. It represents the pinnacle of my works written during 2012. Rewritten, finalized  and mastered 2013.

There has been many, long nights writing these musical pieces. All of these works have been available for listening through my Soundcloud, but the tracks have been rewritten and remastered to fit into this conceptual whole. Feel free to listen to Apha 3, feel free to tell me how it makes you feel. It's audible announcment can be found here.

Aesthetics and Wind Power

Photographer and author Yvon Borque has taken a couple of stellar photographies of wind mills residing in beautiful Palm Springs, California. I am reminded of an article I read written by Lefteris Pavlides, Ph.D., AIA, a professor of architecture at Roger Williams University, as part of a research when writing an article of my own of the perceived lack of aesthetics of wind power.

Coal and oil is not a pretty concept. Especially if we look at the entire process of mining, drilling, transportation etcetera. Yet there are few proponents who choose to attack wind power who also target fossil fuels on the same aesthetical and moral grounds.

Back to Yvon Borque, I was given the permission to repost some of his images on my blog. I think they deserve a wide audience. I agree with him when he writes that "In my view, there is a certain beauty to these giant wind mills.".

All images (c) Yvon Borque. Visit his blog here.

Waves of Wind

It has been quite windy lately. I think I have mentioned on this blog that I like windy days before. It is true, I like them very much. Everything seems so much more alive and less mundane when the wind is moving things around in its unpredictable ways.

There is something powerful when you are experiencing the forces of nature first hand. It takes me out of the kind of everyday thinking where I may be just kind of passing time. It also opens up my imagination to the less then ordinary sides of life and I feel connected to my surrounding in ways which makes me feel alive. Wind makes the surrounding dynamic, moving and alive. Trees bend, leaves and dust scatter around, and if you are outside it is impossible to ignore it.

Taken a sunny day during spring 2009

When I am outdoors these windy days I like to use my camera. It seems as if I am able to go further into the experience when I use photography to help me, as if I allow myself to pause and take the time to actually see that which is around me. If I have had a day which I feel kind of miserable and isolated, this can break that spell and replace that with a sense of connectedness.

At the precise moment when I press my shutter I find myself reflecting a world which is bigger then I might feel spending to much time alone with my own thoughts.