Alan Graves (Los Angeles-based producer and audio engineer Justin Longerbeam) explores change in his latest album. A sonic odyssey of transformation, ‘A Possible Wind’ offers a rich auditory experience through a collection of field recordings of wind captured over a decade, spanning the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, the bamboo forests of Hawaii, the rolling hills of Northern California, and the sandy shores of SoCal. The album reimagines these natural spaces, filtered and processed through an otherworldly prism of hardware effects, charting a personal migration southward along the west coast of the United States. The album layers those field recordings with clarinet (performed by James Phillips of Sumner James and Bombadil), and a dynamic spectrum of textural synthesis to evoke the sensation of standing in the midst of a gust—feeling electrified and propelled forward by the magnetic shifts of change.
Justin Longerbeam is an audio engineer, musician, and sound designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Known for his solo ambient releases under Alan Graves, and as a member of the duos Fog Net and Volcano Lazerbeam, Justin is also a co-founder of Bathysphere Records. In addition to music, Justin has an extensive background in audio for video games and film. He was featured in the book, ‘Music Business Careers’, in which he is referred to as “a music industry maverick who is passionate about how he engages in the business of music”. Out now on Bathysphere Records.
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