Darren Kearns - Optimal Being (LP)

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Comments:
tiny small damage at opening of sleeve / vinyl is closer to NM

General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):
Contains insert. Made in Holland. IMPRESSIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDER 1. SEASCAPES 12:54 2. NATURE 6:58 3. NIGHTSCAPES 6:56 TECHNOLOGICAL TECTONICS 1. TECHNOLOGY 9:52 A. ADVENT OF B. WEB OF MAYA C. FUNDAMENTAL ENERGY EXCHANGE D. QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS E. QUARKING QUAQUAVERSALLY 2. IS THAT YOU HAL? 10.29 A. RHYTHMIZATION i. DATA INTAKE ii. HARMONIC BALANCING B. SECOND INTERVAL REALIZATION i. CONSOLIDATION ii. HARMONIC BALANCING C. FLATTED THIRD REALIZATION i. COMPUTATION SEQUENCE INITIATED ii. HARMONIC BALANCING D. CYCLIC PROCESSING ENGAGED E, CONFLICTING DATA INTAKE i, TENSION ACCUMULATION Ii. IMPRUDENT IMPUGNATION iii. FRUSTRATION iv. INCOHERENCY v, DEMENtIA 3. OPTIMISM 2:31 4. CHROMATOSCOPICS 6:25   Conceived, Written, Performed By Darren Kearns Special Thanks To: Jodi Serota, Craig McCloskey, Ralph Chiodo, Ambience, Ray, Stephan, Danny And WXPN Additional Thanks To Carl Lee For Rendering Invaluable Technical Assistance While Operating On A Broken Shoestring Economic Budget Engineering & Mixing — Darren Kearns Recording Assistance — Jodi Serota. Dan Kearns. Dan Gutgasell Technical Consultant — Carl Lee Producer — Darren Kearns Executive Producer - Gino Wong Album Cover — Stephen Spera INSTRUMENTS: ARP Quadra ARP Odyssey ARP Axxe ARP Omni Yamaha Cs-5 Yamaha Piano Korg Synthesizer Polyphonic Moog Fender Stratocaster Fender Mustang Gibson Es-175 Ovation Acoustic Correspondence: Darren Kearns 1118 Solly Avenue Philadelphia. Pa 19111   NOTES: The following is not intended as an introduction to philosophy or subjective idealism, but instead, may be construed as an earnest attempt by a musician to induce some harmony in a world that unfortunately, is too often quite discordant and dissonant. We are rapidly heading towards a crossroads of our existence on this sphere hurtling through the cosmos. We now have, through different manifestations of our technological prowess, devised many wonderful and intriguing innovations which have benefited mankind greatly. We have also developed the capacity to utterly destroy ourselves. And it's just not that we may blow ourselves up with nuclear warfare, or destroy our invaluable natural resources through poor conservation, or strangle ourselves with over-population, or demolish the soil and its by-products with improperly understood chemicals and pesticides. Beyond all these “symptoms” of the “disease” and at the root of most of the tension in the world, is in the way which we envisage and conceive ourselves as human beings, of our individual existence and identity. We suffer from a false and distorted sense of our own existence as living organisms. The sensation of “I,” “me,” "myself,” as an isolated center of being is so powerful and so essential to our modes of speech and cogitation, to our laws and social institutions, that we cannot experience selfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the cosmos. The world around us often seems chaotic and random, and in our attempt to impose order on this chaos, we break everything down into bits and pieces. Applied science may be considered as the game of order vs. Chance, or order vs. Randomness. And in looking at the world bit by bit, we convince ourselves that it does consist of separate things and events. The problem would not have arisen if we had been aware that it was just our way of looking at the world which had chopped it up into separate bits and pieces, things, events, causes and effects. In the act of putting everything at a distance so as to describe and control it, we have alienated ourselves from our world. Now, the primary result of this “illusion” is that our attitude to the world outside of us is largely hostile. It always seems that we are “conquering” nature, instead of learning to co-operate with it in a harmonious way. This antagonistic attitude of subjugating nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events, that the world beyond ourselves is in an extension of ourselves. If we persist in this attitude, we will inevitably end up destroying the very environment from which we sprang and depend upon. We must, before it’s too late, rend this “veil of illusion’ for us to achieve a state of “optimal being.” In a blend of ambient environmental sounds and music, the first side of the album reflects upon the harmonious relationships which occur in nature. This side is also conducive for relaxation, tension relief and reducing stress which is accumulated by living in today's often insane and hectic society. The second side deals in the rational, analytical, calculating side of ourselves, which manifests itself in our technological prowess, our thirst for control and power. The feel of the electronic music on this side reflects the age of technology we are living in today. A wide array of potentially wonderful ideas and innovations brought about by science are distorted and perverted by this age-old illusion. The second side, somewhat cold and minorish in overall mood, closes positively with a mood of hope and optimism for our future.

A1. Seascapes 12:54
A2. Nature 6:58
A3. Nightscapes 6:56
B1. Technology 9:52
B2. Is That You Hal? 10:29
B3. Optimism 2:31
B4. Chromatoscopics 6:25

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