open to the world [mathbird], by mathbird

open to the world [mathbird]

by mathbird

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1.	open to the world 03:07	buy track
2.	overtook and turned and left me 02:01	buy track
3.	this voice so booming and light 02:14	buy track
4.	protracted and forgetful 04:14	buy track
5.	strict straight lines 01:29	buy track
6.	logomach's hypocrisy 03:08	buy track
7.	riff and raff with mellow expectation 03:16	buy track
8.	these birds in a snowy haze 05:40	buy track
9.	you and I with all things in perspective 02:36	buy track

about

In 2005, I released a split album with a good friend. We pressed a few hundred CDs and sold them online, in local record stores, and to friends. I decided to take the tracks I contributed, add a couple extras that weren't released then, remaster them all and package it as an new album.

The songs are made up of snippets of field recordings, ambient guitar parts, found sounds from the halls of the music department at KU, and lots of processing and layering on an old desktop computer in my dorm room. A few were experimental by nature - like "what happens if I compose a song from a single piano sample?" - that's how you get track the chaos of track 3. Others were built around guitar parts and a key rhythmic field recording. The final track is me on a vibraphone at Manhattan High School using a very lofi mic plugged into a 4th gen iPod. In it's own way it's a found sound.

My artist moniker at the time was mathbird. I still use that name for tagging compositions that have the sound.

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released December 1, 2005

Composition, Production, Guitars, Piano, etc. by Jesse Blake Rundle

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Jesse Blake Rundle Boise, Idaho

I make folk music and score films in Boise, Idaho. I've released two albums, an EP and some singles. More music is always on the way.

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Shrine Basement

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