Though a guitarist (since 1967) I have always had a
strong fetish for synth musicks. I have been kicking
around since the very first synth musicks appeared
on the scene and have loved every blip and bleep. The
New Age era fostered the arrival of drones and
atmospheric and ethereal space music -- some being
void of rhythms. This form of amorphous synth musick
naturally pulled me in as it had profound effects
on my inner worlds and shifted my psyche. I recognized
a ""power"" in this genre to evoke altered consciousness.

In 2002 I began experimenting with various software-based
synths and sound editing programs. As a music reviewer,
I have the pleasure of hearing musicks many will never
have the chance to enjoy. In this deep sea of blissful
inspiration I was destined to ""give back"" my own twisted
echoes of the genre. CodeX Hypnos is the results of
decades of listening and a few months of learning the
right software.

No external hardware was used! This music's origin is 99%
from the silicon cities of a very basic, outdated, personal
computer. I was inspired to go full throttle with finishing
this ""soft-synths"" project after brief e-discussions with
synth composer James Johnson and recording software
authority Scott Garrigus.

Most of CodeX Hypnos was created and finalized
between November 2003 and January 2004. Only two
pieces were first envisioned and created in their
""virgin"" states back in 2002 and then lost their
""innocence"" in late 2003. Think Gyorgy Ligeti meets
Steve Roach and you are close.

I wrote these eight pieces in isolation from, being
unrelated to any theme and then upon listening to them
-- a theme was clearly evoked. Tracks 1 through 8 are
arranged now as a ""journey"" by an introspective voyager
into unknown outer and inner realms of consciousness.
This ""psyche-naut"" encounters regions of placid
lightscapes, formless voids, ominous darker and
threatening regions, and then a final wasteland where
the death of Time and a time of Death is experienced.

	Sleep Til . . . Blended & warped audio created to evoke an otherworldly soundtrack -- a favorite of mine.		Ambient Space Music
	HALsleep Take a drone and doppler it to death . . . and suddenly you are in another dimension of reality.		Ambient Space Music
	Arrival and Fly-by Created 100% in PC realm, no keyboards used. A Soundclick.com TOP 50 tune for ambient genre charts in Jan 2004! This is an EXCERPT of longer song!		Ambient Space Music

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