lost in a sea of sound

Most of the natural world is seemingly undeniably quiet. Long moments of stillness to be broken by the cry of s bird or a slight rustle of branch moving in the faintest wind. Longer stints in this environment sharpen the ears and mind, the sparse silence originally perceived is only a sonic illusion of a walled consciousness. Becoming more attune, the most discrete sounds are now absorbed, revealing a world directly present. The construct of Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation seem to follow this discovery path. With initial sonic input at levels of wondering if speakers are working, the aural spectrum gracefully saturates. The elegant progression opens the mind, droning frequencies leading to vast cataclysmic chasms. A single piano key strikes like a metronome thawing from glacial periods.  Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation was composed by Michael Pisaro-Liu around 2010. The rendition we hear now was recorded live at Colorado College in December 2024. The artist inv...