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The music of Seconds Before Awakening (the nom de
disque of one Michael S. Waller) is tied up with the
history of Free Floating right from the very beginning….
imagined afterlife to experience this simple grand
creation….
I believe that Nine continues the sonic explorations that
are the forte of Seconds Before Awakening while
expanding the sonic palette of Free Floating. I am
most grateful to Michael for sharing his journey through
Free Floating.
Way back in July of 2008 I played “Zero 2” on the very
first installment of my Stillstream radio show. Since then
the music of Seconds Before Awakening has graced
the show quite a few times and now I am happy to be
releasing new music under the Free Floating banner.
There are many aspects of the music that reach out to
me. There is the glacial pace of many of the drifting
tones, moving and changing so slowly that at times
they seem almost frozen. There is the deep and distant
echo that sends those frozen tones out into the infinite
stillness of space. There is a sense of darkness
punctuated by light, the sonic equivalent of the
amazing photographs produced by the Hubble Space
Telescope. I almost feel like this is the sound of those
nebulae and galaxies frozen for us to contemplate the
shifting energy and interplay between matter and
nothingness.
Brad Ross-MacLeod
February 2012
Some find those kinds of imagesand indeed this kind
of musicstrange and cold, offering little comfort. For
some reason I tend to have the opposite reaction.
These sounds and those images remind me that infinity
is real, here and now. There is no need to wait for an
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1. Nine 1 (59:22)
Other releases by Seconds Before
Awakening:
Zero
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
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Seconds Before Awakening
Seconds Before Awakening is an ambient sound project
that is the soundtrack for dreams and dreamers alike.
Seconds Before Awakening was formed in 2008 and all
the dreams are created in New York, NY USA
Released February 2012 by Free Floating Music
All Music by Michael S. Waller
NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-
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