Binary Ghosts, by David Slowing

Binary Ghosts

by David Slowing

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	1.	Analog Afterlife 05:16
	2.	Daisy 04:50
	3.	Rhayce 03:00
	4.	End Up Together 05:28
	5.	Month by Month 02:59
	6.	Ancient Feed 04:14
	7.	Infinite Interlude 04:30
	8.	Broken Mirror 04:01
	9.	Quietly 03:19

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Binary Ghosts are the digital remnants we leave behind: the facebook graveyard, twitter like-bots posting in perpetuity -- the infinite databases of pictures, videos, and sounds. When so many clippings of our identity are digitized, it is possible they can take root and grow their own lives with a little watering from those who remain.

The inspiration for this record came after a string of deaths. Grief is expected, but what I didn’t expect was the unique way the grieving used digital mediums to express their grief.

A few months after my grandmother passed, I would intermittently get likes on my instagram from her account. It was both incredibly unnerving, but also comforting. It ended up being a relative who had her old iPad and was nostalgically drifting through her account.

In another case, a close friend passed after a long and difficult battle with cancer. To this day, his parents keep his memory alive by regularly messaging and posting on facebook as him… refusing to let his account to go “in memoriam.” His father acknowledged this behavior as odd, but also wants to do everything possible to continue the legacy of their kind and valiant son.

In my case, I’m making this record. When my mother passed at 57 from Alzheimer's, she left behind a basket of cassettes. She loved music, but as a foremost stay at home mother to 6 kids, never attempted to “make it.” The cassettes contained hours of her rehearsing, running scales, vocal lessons, writing, covering. As I listened through them, I began to think about how these sounds were sort of extensions of her memory.

Inspired, I sampled her scales and created a digital instrument. The piano sounds on the record are those of my brother and I “playing” her, playing piano. Similar to how the others performed memories on social media, I was performing the memory of my mother.

Binary Ghosts is an exploration of this phenomena. By sampling my mother, and other friends who have passed, I am attempting to collaborate with their memories. To continue their legacy, and hopefully, to bring light to the horrible illnesses that took them so early.

All David Slowing's proceeds from Binary Ghosts will go to benefit Alzheimer’s, Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemia, and congenital heart disease research.

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released March 26, 2021

Produced by David Slowing, in collaboration with the spirits and sounds of Suzanne Rushing Plakon ( 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 ) , Jhaysonn Pathak ( 3, 4, 5, 6, jhaysonn.bandcamp.com ), Joseph Serrin (4), and Ethan Greene ( 8 ). Piano by Tim Plakon ( 8 ). Artwork by Chris Muccioli. Mastered by Rafael Irisarri. Dedicated to those youngly departed, early explorers of the digital afterlife.

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David Slowing Austin, Texas

David Slowing is a producer and musician currently residing in Austin, Texas. He makes ambient, evolving, and melodic compositions with the use of modular synthesizers, machine learning, algorithmic composition, sampling, and acoustic instruments, often around a theme or concept. ... more

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