“Let the Landscape Hold Your Grief” is my debut album under the name bioPrism. The project was largely a response to accelerating political instability, both in the US and abroad. I wanted to explore the chronic grief of living in an era of constant entropy, where basic things I had once taken for granted are at risk of being lost. While grief can be isolating, it can also be a catalyst for transformation, as I have witnessed in my own life these last few years. The narrative of this album represents a journey I’ve repeated many times over – one that oscillates between claustrophobia and spaciousness, isolation and community.
Stylistically, this album departs from the techno influences of my previous EPs in favor of ambient and experimental soundscapes. To represent the interplay between hope and loss, I sought to balance noise and melody, light and dark, the digital and the acoustic throughout. During the composition process, I also became very interested in audio feedback methods, which I employed on darker tracks such as “obsidian dirge” and “gyre”. Acoustic, granular textures offer warmer emotional counterpoints in tracks such as “microcosmos” and “interbeing”. Finally, the album includes collaborations with vocalist Cassandra Cohen on “distances collapse”, vocalist Rachel Epperly (my sister) on “tidesong”, and percussionist Evan Gedert on “interbeing”.
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