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Eden Grey's Concept of work

I compose music using my own techniques for approaching music technology, in an effort to express the ineffable. I have delved into research on deep listening and am deeply interested in studying how and why the experience of music affects us. Many agree that the experience of live music can be profoundly different due to factors like volume, environment, and surroundings; listening to your favorite song by Modeselektor on an MP3 at home is vastly different from experiencing the same song performed live at a festival.

Why does music and sound evoke emotions in us sometimes, while leaving us indifferent at other times?
What aspects of sound connect to our minds and memories?
What prompts us to enjoy the experience of certain sounds and music, while despising others?
What makes music so nostalgic?
What are we connecting to when we listen to music and sound?

These are all questions I am seeking answers to in my approach to composition. Why have I chosen to dedicate my life to music? Because life itself is inherent rhythm: our heartbeat.

Why do people feel the most connected to the spiritual, the divine, and the sacred when they are having a musical experience? I am interested in how the sound of music can make the mind cause physical reactions from the body and emotions. With my modular synthesizer live set, I focus on it with extreme clarity and without distractions; it is a form of clear mind.

I am challenged by the experience of live improvisation with the modular synthesizer because I am seeking the low tones, the vibration of frequencies rattling my entire body. I am in search of the melodies within them, experimenting with tunings, and avoiding the highest frequencies that cross the threshold of pain I embrace dissonances and attempt to make them recognizable melodies. I let the space of the live set sit comfortably in one tempo to create a feeling of hypnosis before changing the clock tempo, if and when I decide to do so.

I embrace dissonances and attempt to make them recognizable melodies. I let the space of the live set sit comfortably in one tempo to create a feeling of hypnosis before changing the tempo, if and when I decide to do so.

I adore playing the piano because it evokes emotions within me. I play softly and slowly, and I can tear up while playing because the music moves me deeply.

I adore the modular synthesizer because it liberates me; it's impossible for me to think about emotions or sad things when I'm playing it. I'm completely focused on the activity of playing the instrument, and when I reach the harsh, industrial sounds, it helps displace some of my anger towards the way the world has shaped us all and the society we are forced to live in with limited freedoms. With my modular synthesizer, I feel endless possibilities to express the haunted voices I've heard trapped within the machines. I imagine a great science-fictional mystery of the soul that has led to the conception of why many of us choose to explore the possibilities of electronic sound.