“But those formative experiences of discovering music are now different,” he says with nostalgia. “You go to a SoundCloud link and it’s no wonder people’s attention spans are less than 11 seconds. People click through a freaking waveform and formulate an opinion about something in an instant.” For all the good that technology has brought us, there is an equally powerful downside: “Now, because you have everything on the internet, there’s an immediacy that is decreasing people’s understanding of the joy of discovery of music.”
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BT suggests that those who loved ‘This Binary Universe’, his critically acclaimed 2006 experimental/IDM album, will appreciate this upcoming album for its similarly modular, ambient aesthetic. “The entire record is recorded in a way I’ve never recorded anything before,” he explains. Where ‘This Binary Universe’ was optimized to be experienced on a set of high-end monitors, this new album is a multi-sensory experience, an impressive audio installation that can be seen, heard and felt. It is delivered in HD sound, beyond lossless quality, and at over 1GB per song it is worth every byte of space taken up on a hard drive.
The unnamed album is geometric, architectural. It imparts a sense of shifting structures, as if BT is building something across dimensions that spans past, present and future. With eyes closed, we can see the sound undulating through its various forms in an electronic metamorphosis. We can hear the story of our galaxy, its birth, life and death. We are swept through places long gone and yet to become. It is mystical and mechanistic.
Brian is the first electronic artist I ever opted-in to listening to. I had heard of other artists but as far as going to the store and buying a CD, Brian was my first. It was 2002 when he and I were sharing private mails on MySpace and we connected later on Twitter and met up a few times and every time I sat with Brian to talk, it’s just awe-inspiring how intelligent he is and how optimistic he is about life and the world. He loves everyone and his approach to life is apparent in his music.
Anything he does, I’ll buy because he’s never put out a product that wasn’t perfect in every way.
I listen to an album of his new or old once a week and the upcoming project sounds remarkable.
I quoted the initial part of the interview because it’s a valid point. Music discovery is remarkably easy. Finding great music is not.