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Lîla

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«There is an old Sanskrit word, lîla, which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Lîla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love.
Lîla may be the simplest thing there is—spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard-won achievement imaginable, and its coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves.»
— Free Play, by Stephen Nachmanovtich

The root of all tracks are made together with my beloved ukulele named Lîla for the reason mentioned above. Whenever we play music together it's like time stops, and I have the opportunity to play God for a little moment; creating sounds, moving air, making brainwaves followed by emotions.. It's a form of communication beyond words, but the combination of both makes for a complete understanding of both ideas and emotions.

This short EP is about my journey through life, like all of my tracks are. It tells the story of how I moved from home to the great unknown, met Alan Watts and taoism, learnt to appreaciate the beauty in nature while understanding that I, too, am a part of nature. You and I, togheter we are joy. Our unconsciousness makes me sad...

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More tracks will come as we get to know each other.

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Exploring Unknown Territory 3:40

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Tomorrow Never Comes 5:20

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Mindless (WIP)

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Mindless is still a work in progress, and I will release updates as I compose them. It's an invitation to discover how I work with music. So even though you've heard it once now, it will certainly be a bit different in 3 months.

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From waking up in to a strange dream, to being plunged out into the brutal stress of modern reality, to mental and physical breakdowns, to perceving the beauty of nature, to the exploration of our consciousness, to invasions of outer space, to re-building a (micro) society, and to eventually ending up right back where you started?

Via mindful compositing, recording and soundscaping, Mindless takes you through the cycle of life, and all the small, seemingly unimportant situations, habits, and happenings that in all actuality makes up our reality, I question our view on reality as we know it, the meaning of life to put it more "clichely". Can we teach ourselves to perceive reality through a somewhat different lense, the lense of zen buddhism, taoism possibly psychedelics combined? Why, you ask? Because we're as a global society is in pain, and we're refusing to collectively acknowledge that.

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Blomstereng Ved Eit Fjøs 2:26

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Cows 3:52

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Bones 3:13

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Barbie 3:13

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Løvet Rødmer 4:31

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Kvardagspsykedelika 5:09

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Reflections 3:06

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Outcomes 3:21

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Alien Civilization 2:21

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Industrial Dance 5:24

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Mindless 4:05

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Shades of Blue and the Sun 4:45

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Bioluminescent

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INSTRUCTIONS:

– Sit/stand/lay down in a quiet place. Become aware of your surroundings. Where are you? How are you feeling right now? How are you breathing? Spend a minute or more on this process.

PREPARE YOUR LISTENINGEXPERIENCE:

– Make sure you can see the albumcover for 10 minutes, (turn off or extend the screensaver if it's activated).
• Put on your best pair of headphones, or place yourself in the "sweetspot" of your speakers.

PRESS PLAY. LISTEN WITHOUT LISTENING.

• After the playthrough, take a moment to reflect on what you are feeling now comapared to before. Write something down if you feel like it.
– Unless you've already read it, read the accompanying text below. Did your experience match the text?
• Optionally: do another listeningsession with this new knowledge in mind.

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Bioluminescence, the ability of a living organism to produce and emit light. Angler fish, fireflies, some types of jellyfish... The list goes on.

In this case it's a metaphor: I'm sharing with you my own, newly discovered bioluminescence, "the way" out of the darkness of my labyrinthian mind. Or rather, a way to live in some kind of harmony with my darker self.
Present is the essence of the yin yang-symbol from the Taoist philosophy, a way to remind myself that life is a balancing act, and also that there is light in the darkness if one only lets it shine through, if one lets go of all the mental obstacles.

Realize that the maze in your mind is «the Way», that no direction is more right or more wrong than another, that you are a unique creature too, just like everyone else.

Enjoy all the small moments in life. Make the best out of it, and don't be controlled by fear. We're all terrified to be alive, to be conscious, to be, but we are, and we create. Our two primary drive forces in life is to take care of ourselves, and take care of our species. In other words, eat, sleep and fuck. We reproduce = we create. Do your thing your way. Treat every "rule" in life as guidelines, but make up your own mind. Experiment. Be curious.
We are creations, creatures born (to be) creators.

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Field recordings were made with my previous Zoom Q3HD on a guided canal tour boat in Amsterdam, august 2016

Sound design made in Ableton Live with Circle 2 and Glitch 2 plug-ins mainly.

Everything is recorded, mixed and mastered by myself.

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Dreamescape

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First selfmade EP, with some help from a few of my friends.

It is, what I like to call, Melodic Glitch and Intelligent Dance Music; experimental and playful. Track 3 is basically glitch-metal while track 4 is almost the opposite.

This EP is less than 20 minutes long, and takes you backwards on a little journey in a not so distant dimension; the dream world.

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Dreamy Clouds of Glass 4:26

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Bicycles 3:36

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Subliminal 3:49

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Interlude - The Drought And The Crow 1:59

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It Ends or Begins 5:09

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Human Nature

#Kvardagspsykedelika

Have you ever stoped for a moment and really perceived what you are experiencing with all your senses?
#Kvardagspsykedelika—Everyday psychedelics—is a series of blog posts and poems
that discovers the eternal and infinite beauty of these moments;
Øyeblikk—blink of an eye...

Å Bestige Eit Jorde

Det er mørkt i lyset av jorda
Det er dypt i høyden av mørket
Eg har besteget 85,3 meter
Du henger etter

Jordskjelv frå himmelen bak meg.
Aliens bygger sandslott på fjellene
Tre fugler trekker trekkfuglte i treet.

Rosa, bare føtter
insekt inni øyet
Drone over hovudet
Piggtråd bortpå jordet

Mørkere skal det bli
Vampyrer med snabelspyd
Eg spisser ørene - prøver å passe inn
Men det er eg som blir spist levande
i mitt skinn, og i mitt sinn

Mørket skinner snart ikkje meir...

(Eit) stikk på min venstre skulder…

Existentialism

Did it ever occur to you to stop for a brief moment? To pull your car to the side and step out into the wilderness. To place your butt on that bench on the way from your comfortable house. To take the longer route while walking home from work - through that park, natur reserve, or forest, over that mountain, along the coastline while feeling beach sand under your shoe soles.
Why would one do such a thing at all you might ask? Why would one leave society for a short period of time; all the problems…

Pretty people and fear...

Why is it so intimidating to even look at what most of us call pretty people?
To be completely honest, I guess it's just my own doubt being negatively mirrored, like when one inverts the colours of a digital image. I Keep forgetting that I want to be in the front of the revolution of what I call equalism. (More on that later).

Reversed, it's just a different side of the same coin however. If someone look towards me intensely, I feel the urge to look away, to hide myself, to make my self as small and…

About

I am mainly a musician experimenting with vocals, and multiple instruments such as ukulele, trombone, synthesizer, kalimba, ocarina, saw, glass, scrap metal on the ground, water, and anything else that makes a sound, anything. I make field recordings and produce somewhat electronic, somewhat acoustic music (let's call it "semi-binaural electro-acoustic sound experiences") using Ableton Live 10. I love making sound art installations, playing live gigs, composing film and game music.

While traveling around the world I also take photos of nature and try to capture the magic of everyday moments by writing part philosophical part psychedelic texts and poems in my online journal #Kvardagspsykedelika. I like to draw occasionally, and this year I've begun dancing/moving too. Aaaand I love cooking (and eating) good vegetable based food.
« I guess anything can be an art if your entire being and soul resonates with it in the moment of creation.

It looks like I am a lot of different labels (illusions) playing with different genres, so the important thing is:

"I am", pure and simple, and so too, "you are".

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Contact: curioustin@gmail.com

Music

Lîla

Curioustín

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Mindless (WIP)

Curioustín

Bioluminescent

Curioustín

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Dreamescape

Curioustín

Photos

Drawings

Polaroids

Human Nature

#Kvardagspsykedelika

Å Bestige Eit Jorde

Existentialism

Pretty people and fear...

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