welcome to sounds!
This section is dedicated to my music & sounds. All work here is original. To say otherwise would be cheating. And I only cheated once, on my 8th grade Computer Science test. And it sucked. I was so nervous. Sweating, sweating and sweating. My friend wrote the answer on an eraser. And I grabbed it with my sweaty palms and accidentally wiped the ink before I could read it. Horrible experience. Never again.
The “album” /beginnings is just a bunch of old songs collected together and marketed (rather ineffectually) as an album. This one has no theme, no underlying motif, no unifying purpose or statement. It’s more like a chocolate box, in that there are many different types of noises going on in these tracks. But then again, rather unlike a chocolate box, it is not, I gather, in any way that I can presume to see, a delightful experience. #sorrynotsorry?
As you may or may not be aware, I am still currently in the process of building my website, it is supposed to feature my music (and photos and writings). But I am very fickle minded (and unfortunately a tad bit pickle fingered too). I think it’s reflected rather accurately in the music. Don’t believe me? Well have a listen to the album will ye eh?
In the future, many things will happen. I cannot say with certain certainty of what will or will not happen, (psst, world’s gonna end sooon!!!1!), but, I can say that I have some projects I am working on. And I am very very excited about them.
For instance, I am working on an acoustic album, featuring only overdubs of my acoustic guitar. No other instruments.
I am also working on two albums about life: one pertains more specifically to our shared human experiences and this ‘life’ we live in, the other is more concerned with life in general, its origins, its journey through timespace, its story of proliferation on Earth. I will be more forthcoming in the elaboration of these projects as they begin to take a more concrete shape. (Stay tuned!)
Byerhd Productions is a subsidiary of Ankur Neupane. Oof.
And, lastly, I am thinking of making some tracks that just contain noises made by refrigerators and air conditioners. I read somewhere that the music you hear in supermarkets is also aimed at masking these ‘industrial’ noises - which are peskily infamous for their negative effect on shopping behavior (Millman, 1982; Hynes and Manson, 2016). So as to prevent you, esteemed listener and dearest reader, from spending frivolously on unneeded items, would you be interested in hearing some drab & dreary ‘music’? If you are indeed interested, let me know.
Hynes, N. and Manson, S. (2016) The sound of silence: Why music in supermarkets is just a distraction. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 28, pp. 171-178.
Milliman, R.E. (1982) Using Background Music to Affect the Behavior of Supermarket Shoppers. Journal of Marketing. 46(3), pp. 86-91.