Magnetic Resonance Orchestra is my new project. It's all I have been working on for quite a while, and I'm very happy with the two-song demo that has emerged from the seven-month process of research and composition.

The idea is that this will be a whole album of electronic/ambient music made using (almost) entirely acoustic instruments as sound sources. I like the confluence of familiarity and strangeness that this creates. I've tried to create a kind of dream-world where the instruments become hyperreal versions of themselves. A non-acoustic music where "classical" instruments are not presented as the poor cousins of electric guitars, but rather as beautiful actors in their own right, or as the best synthesizers you never heard. Neeedless to say, this would have been impossible without a group of wonderful performers willing to rock out and put their warmth, expressiveness and musicality down on hard disk. (...and perhaps make music history - has the euphonium ever appeared on an ambient album before now?)

I am trying to get this album released, and am sending the demo to various labels that I think would be interested in what I'm doing. One of the consequences of this is that, because I do envision selling this audio, I'm not making the mp3s available publicly on the web. If you would like to get a password to hear the tracks, please contact me. And please don't share these files before the album is released because they're not properly mastered.

By the way, the album (and track) title Subtle Technology is a reference to the relatively common idea of seeing yogic meditation techniques as technology, i.e. a specific technical understanding of the spiritual (or "subtle," as in working on the subtle body) variety.