I really like this recording. I did it one Sunday afternoon, starting with an acoustic guitar and an ebow. Then I added my two string violin, then the sampled Gamelan (the only non-acoustic instrument, but it was played live, not sequenced), the tin whistle, the plucked guitar, and the extra sounds. It was a lot of fun to make.

This is a watershed recording for me, as it marks the point when I stopped writing songs with lyrics and standard structures and started to really explore sound. The instrumentation here is still influential to me, and the moment I finished it, I knew I had started something new. It was also the first acoustic recording I made after years of trying to deal with MIDI.

• distant travels in a tiny room (19.3 MB)

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