The Z O N E S album is born out of my previous 'chord experiments' which involved taking a key and using the scales semi-blindly to create harmony and dissonance alongside the base note drone. Mainly this was done for creating extended duration live performances, but I also noticed that as I performed in real-time this way, my head (and body perhaps?) would basically play around in a meditative 'zone' simultaneously outside and very much of the self, which strangely enough would guide where I would place the next musical events.
Z O N E S takes this idea further by saying 'What if the zone existed before the music? What then?' By using 'basic' 'meditation' 'technique' (with a heaping helping of binaural beats at times) I put myself quite a bit in extremely similar headspaces that the doing the chord experiment performances would create. Once the techniques set in and my 'being' was sort of as clean of a slate as I could get, I would make my way to the computer and keyboard setup. I would gather loops, create patches, and perform loosely 'how I felt' for as short as 3 minutes, and as long as 22 -- basically for as long as the headspace stayed. No overdubs, no backtracking.
Z O N E S is the result of many questions, concepts and pure existence.
Credits
Recorded December 2020 at home.
Composed, performed and produced by Petridisch.
Mastered by Z. Emerson.
Artwork by Matthew Sisk.
