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breathing may surprise
Like many artists, I first encountered daniel in the
Stillstream
chat room and then, I believe, through the
Relaxed Machinery community.
It was on the latter
where he posted a SoundCloud link to “Being
Peace”.
Here is what he had to say about it:
I recorded this piece, "Being Peace" about 10
years ago, and I have never come close to its
perfection since…. During that day that ended
with Being Peace, I was for some reason
unentangled with the result, which mental state I
was able to sustain long enough to have a
recording of what bliss sounds like to me by the
end of the day. I would cry every time I listened to
it for weeks.
I instantly fell in love with the piece and asked daniel if I
could release it on
Conception.
Now daniel has many times mentioned “Being Peace”
as the pinnacle of his art and how nothing he’s done has
ever come close. I, naturally, took him at his word.
Then he began to post more tracks to
SoundCloud,
intending them primarily as experiments, looking for
feedback.
With the post of each new “thing” (his own term for his
pieces), I came to realize that here is a man who vastly
underestimates the depth of his art. For me it finally
reached a critical mass and I contacted daniel, telling
him that unless he objected I would release these
pieces. Luckily for all of us he consented.
While these pieces may not be finally tuned and
mastered as perfect works, I believe deeply in their
beauty and the depth of feeling they convey. There is a
deep well of emotions that daniel can tap into. While
there is a sense of melancholy to be found, the ultimate
sense I take from this music is a serene sense of being
present to the current moment.
Take some time to explore these pieces and I believe
you will find some beautiful places to be at peace.
Brad Ross-MacLeod
Vancouver, BC
April 2012
http://freefloatingmusic.com.
daniel robert lahey
My family had keyboards, either a piano or
Hammond organ in the house while I was
growing up, so I've been noodling on
keyboards for most of my life. I think what
really grabbed me was when I discovered
what happens when you play two notes
together. The energy and complexity of the harmonics and
the combination tones made my ears stand at attention, or
would have if I were a dog or other kind of animal that could
move its ears. I played the guitar since the age of 10, got very
serious about it at 15, and began studying classical guitar at
18. That don't pay the bills unless you can teach, and I can't.
At around 30, I got my first synthesizer, a Roland SH-101 and
started an "art band" with a brilliant musician and a couple of
tape recorders doing long-delay tape loop music. I've been
making electronic music ever since, and although I've been
an ambient music fan for 15 years or so, I didn't devote much
time to making my own until the last couple of years. It's been
only in the last year or so that I've really applied myself to
making music that is, in the words of Brian Eno, "as ignorable
as it is interesting."
Great music is a combination of the personality, intelligence,
and discipline of the composer, aligned with the ability to "get
out of the way" of the music. In other words, the music is like
light and the composer is like a prism, and the discipline is
likened to keeping the prism clean and positioned so that the
colors can be bent from the stream to reflect and dance on
the surrounding surfaces. It never feels right to say "my music"
when talking about what I've come up with, and I think that's
a combination of humility and hubris, two other essential
qualities of a musician. Humility, because as the saying goes,
you stand on the shoulders of those who came before you.
(My number one hero, J.S. Bach must be flatter than a
pancake by now, because it is my belief that he more than
any other musician is the progenitor of all that came to be
since his time. Sorry Sebastian! That's gotta hurt!). Hubris,
because one must have confidence in one's ability to
translate beauty into sound and the audacity to think that one
can do it any better than anyone else.
I almost never hear the music I produce ahead of time. The
process for me is usually sitting down, finding a sound I like,
noodling a bit, and then start recording before I get ear
fatigue. I seldom have a particular intention in mind for a
piece, so I think it usually ends up coming from whatever
emotions are energizing me at that moment. All of those
years of noodling at the keyboard - without ever studying
scales more than cursorily - guide my fingers as much as my
mind does. So, it's a combination of accident and intention,
with varying levels of each depending on the nature of the
sounds I'm making. My overall intention is to make music that
is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. I have a ways to
go before that.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
ever
the sweetest drops
in midair
wonder’s returning
days like this
breathing may surprise
13/37
10/04
5/23
10/29
16/46
14/40
All instruments and sounds by daniel robert lahey
http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com/profile/danielLahey
breathing may surprise
daniel robert lahey
Released April 2012 by Free Floating Music
ffm•009
These pieces appeared on SoundCloud under the
following titles: Thing 008 (the sweetest drops), Thing 009
(ever), Thing 010 (in midair), Thing 016 (wonder’s
returning), Thing 019 (days like this), Thing 14 (breathing
may surprise).
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-
ND 3.0 License.
http://freefloatingmusic.com

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