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Neither Hope nor Fear

by Austin Davis

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Inner Clearing 02:06
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Neither Hope nor Fear 30:38
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Astral Dip 05:28
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High fidelity and low end, improvised and ambient, psychedelic fringe sound meditations with tape loops and geophone samples. I have a hard time imagining listening to this any other way besides alone in one kind of meditation or another. I've also been using it as anti-anxiety medicine in traffic.

I had told my friend that my musical aim had shifted recently, in that I was very much desiring to make stuff that really invoked feelings of power. After recording this meditation, I felt that hunger strangely satiated. In the past, when it came to portraying power in music it was kind of manic, loud, and pretty abrasive. Contrast that with this release which is of full of silence and nuance and couldn't be more minimal. It does not scream at the listener but rather invites them into a serendipitous but purposeful worship of low end electroacoustic textures, with a careful unbothered pacing which is not in a hurry and seems to be "calm and gathering strength." A different kind of sonic yearning and patience are likely required to fully enjoy these esoteric industrial meditations. These recordings are also very much reflective of where I'm at in my own personal journey and my meditations which are aimed at a strength which is still and unmoved. As I wrote recently,
"You don't become strong by pushing down, ignoring, and pretending that you don't have weaknesses. You don't advance by pretending you are not hurt or bothered. You lean into the pain, fully experience it without games and numbing mechanisms, do real battle with it over and over and over again until you become something that cannot be swayed."

"Despair not therefore, but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God’s purpose and thy will to accomplish...

Patience is our first great necessary lesson, but not the dull slowness to move of the timid, the sceptical, the weary, the slothful, the unambitious or the weakling; a patience full of a calm and gathering strength which watches and prepares itself for the hour of swift great strokes, few but enough to change destiny...

Despise not force, nor hate it for the ugliness of some of its faces, nor think that love only is God. All perfect perfection must have something in it of the stuff of the hero and even of the Titan. But the greatest force is born out of the greatest difficulty."

- Sri Aurobindo

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released March 24, 2024

Austin Davis: modular tape music machine

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Austin Davis Austin, Texas

Austin Davis is a multimedia artist and avantgarde sound & music composer, based out of both Colorado Springs and Austin, Tx

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