{"id":3689,"date":"2021-01-24T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:00:55","slug":"soundwave-43-steve-swartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-43-steve-swartz\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 43 : STEVE SWARTZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Steve Swartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Some months ago, Jason Engling<\/a> was a guest deejay on SOUNDWAVE (you can hear his mix here<\/a>). After Jason\u2019s show I asked who he thought might be interested in contributing to SOUNDWAVE, and he recommended Steve.<\/p>\n\n

I\u2019ve been a fan of Jason\u2019s music since discovering him<\/a> through my electronic music show, solipsistic NATION. If Jason recommended Steve, then as far as I was concerned, it was a done deal. I\u2019m not disappointed with Steve\u2019s mix, and neither will you. It\u2019s a thing of beauty. It\u2019s also a perfect way to wind down four years of a corrupt and inept presidency and an attempted coup. Whew!<\/p>\n\n

Steve has some words about his mix below.<\/p>\n\n

I want to note that Steve included a lovely track from Brian Eno. That\u2019s not anything remarkable, given that Eno practically invented the ambient genre. What is<\/em> impressive is that Eno pitch-shifted his voice, creating a vocoder-like effect. I usually hate that sort of thing, but Eno being Eno, the song gave me goosebumps. And when I looked over Steve\u2019s playlist and saw that the track was by Eno, I thought to m myself, \u201cThat makes sense.\u201dI thank Steve for introducing me to an Eno track I had not heard before.<\/p>\n\n

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W. David Oliphant\u2019s Remote Listening: Rag Dun vs Life Garden<\/em> album<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Before we get to Steve, I want to share with you the latest release from W. David Oliphant<\/a>, who guest deejayed<\/a> on SOUNDWAVE in September. The album is called Remote Listening: Rag Dun vs Life Garden<\/a><\/em>. Oliphant describes remote listening as \u201cthe practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target, purportedly \u2018sensing\u2019 with the mind.\u201d Like everything else I\u2019ve heard from Oliphant, his music is stepping into someone\u2019s fever dream.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Ishmael Cormack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

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Steve Swartz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

I don\u2019t know anyone who escaped the intense gravity of 2020. In addition to a pandemic, this year also saw the unexpected passing of my father. A loss I\u2019m still trying to process. I\u2019ve spent a great deal of time contemplating death, disease, and division over the last several months. Music has always been my primary outlet of expression. As a result, I made a lot of music in\u00a02020. (Four releases!) But as I land on the other side of them, I find myself increasingly feeling lost and out of place. I am often daydreaming about being somewhere else and unreachable. This sense has carried over into my music listening habits as well. I\u2019ve desired quieter sounds that feel less tethered to a place or time. Fewer words. More feeling. To, perhaps, communicate something words cannot yet find. And that is what I have found in these songs over the last several months. To me, each of these pieces feels like rivers that drift or breeze stirring trees in a geography\u00a0I would prefer to dwell. So I sit in these songs and let them fill my house throughout the days and evenings until, hopefully, I embody the spirit of their imagined origins.<\/p>\n\n