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b'Tyresta is the experimental music project of social worker and musician Nick Turner.\\xa0 Nick is based in Chicago, Illinois and makes music utilizing various instruments\\xa0including Buchla Music Easel, eurorack\\xa0modular, mellotron, and guitar.\\xa0 He also helps behind the scenes with\\xa0the ambient, drone, and experimental\\xa0music labels Past Inside the Present and sub-label Fallen Moon Recordings.\\xa0 \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nYou can find his music on Bandcamp or through your streaming service of choice.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nPiece description:\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nI wrote and recorded "Facing Ourselves" during the Coronavirus shelter-in-place order in April 2020.\\xa0 Outside of my life in music, I am a mental health therapist so I have directly\\xa0witnessed what happens when people (myself included) are forced to give up certain routines and distractions and face themselves.\\xa0 The four parts of "Facing Ourselves" sort of represent the various emotional states that both I and the people I work with have gone through since the Coronavirus outbreak.\\xa0 Though at times uneasy and tense, there have been moments of deep love and connection, which has been interesting to witness and experience.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nLike many people, when working with the Easel, I can get lost in shaping sounds for hours on end.\\xa0 With each of these pieces, I was working with both the Easel and various effects\\xa0 (Strymon Timeline, Strymon BigSky, and Valhalla reverb) in order to land on sounds that adequately represented the emotions/feelings I wanted to evoke in the listener.\\xa0 Effects, both in and outside of the box, help inform my approach to sound design and also assist in determining the direction I go in with certain patches on the Easel (timbres, waveshapes, tempo, envelope shapes, etc.).\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nMastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound.'