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Inspired by my time spent willingly isolated in the forest, thinking and exploring, my many death dread induced panic attacks, - in which spawned a journey within me to learn about death and depression and the human condition - and my absorption into digital DIY art scenes, this can be seen as more of a multimedia philosophical statement than a conventional album / book, "escapism" is a long-form piece spanning over multiple acts of various intensity - picking up notes of drone, black metal, dark ambient, post-rock, doom, industrial, minimal, slowcore, noise, and cold wave - accompanied by a 44 page book, which spans topics of death, consciousness, suicide and hope, as well as many pieces of artwork.

The second disc are songs that were created at the same time as "escapism", titled "my letter to abstract guilt". These songs are personal in nature, and touch on the decay of natural environments, personal guilt, interpersonal relationships, and short lived ecstatic moments.

The media when combined is supposed to put you in a almost trance like state, think less so meditative and more so based around informational mass and weight, a gap in the consciousness is formed when fully indulged within the medium, at least in theory, something I have found when I myself engaged in the engrossing of various pieces of media.

The music and audio - which can be described best as "compositions" - goes from hushed minimal synth pads and pan drums, to crashing blackened crescendos, opening up into lush ambient soundscapes. The music on "escapism" is often based around repetitiveness and a overall taste for long form composition.

A multi-media publication, the album is accompanied by a 44 page book, which details many essays that touch on suicide, hope, consciousness, and death. The accompanying imagery to the literature is made up of 19th century funeral photographs, Renaissance era manuscript illustrations, and original artwork, and photography (including photography from the aforementioned forest, digital paintings, and various scanner based artworks). Monotone and textured, these illustrations express the existential, disjointed, and often nihilistic worldviews the words portray.

It is recommended you read the writings, and scan the art within this publication as you listen to the audio.

I found inspiration in the sounds of Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Have a Nice Life, Sunn O))), Agriculture, Unable to Fully Embrace this Happiness, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Jesu, Grouper, The Angelic Process, Planning for Burial, The artwork of David Lynch, and of Dean Lloyd Robinson, and the writings of Dan Barret, David Foster Wallace, John Michael Godier, and Albert Camus. I was also inspired by the lectures of Robert Sapolsky and Shelly Kagan.

Made using pan drum, guitar, tape loops, samplers, signal processing, synths, keyboards, found sounds, piano, drum machines, bass, bitcrushers, organs, glockenspiel, MIDI signals, drum set, electronic noise, zither, bone, ink, existentialism, and many fx-units.

Artwork, audio, writing, production, publication, and mastering by William Murray.

All audio written, mastered, and produced by William Murray.

Printed and distributed by Cornus Audio Visual.

Recorded and printed in the middle of nowhere

©️ Copyright Cornus Audio Visual - William Murray

Personal site: williammurray.carrd.co

Publishing site: cornusaudiovisual.carrd.co

Contact: williammurray129@gmail.com

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