In these days we find ourselves in a strange position with technology, using the technology available to us to its greatest extent, yet realizing its detrimental effects to the world we live in, beyond our own borders, effecting the lives of people we have never met, who often live lives much closer to the realities of Earth's environment than we do. What an apparently absurd use of electricity to create and display sounds and images. But as others have noted, it is all rooted in the idea of energy. In the past, many of our ancestors envisioned all energy as related. Sound, sight, the wind, spirit, music, and the healing arts were linked in a continuuim. The truth of the matter is that as we approach the extremities of the 21st century, the various energies are increasingly becoming integrated by musicians, artists, doctors, scientists and politicians. Of course as musicians we choose to integrate them in a positive manner, while others more effected by material gain tend to seek to relate them toward more destructive ends. Themes of transformation and transmutation dominate both our science and art.

We strive to accomplish what we set out to do/ We work at the objects of our interest/ Shape their form into presentations of the truth.

Making things takes time, something that we often forget. Thinking about it on my way from work as an archaeologist to my work as a musician, evolutionary processes inform all creations, from an organism to a song. To achieve a perfection in such creations is in fact to contain a beneficial ordering of historical influences that have inturn been influenced by the weathering processes of existence, honed to a workable shape, a truer form for the times.