Figure and Ground
by Scott Scholz
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Bundle includes:
- Scott Scholz 'Figure and Ground' (solo guitar, electroacoustic)
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- Second May release announcement forthcoming
Bandcamp downloads of both albums included.
Ships mid-to-late May
Includes digital pre-order of Figure and Ground. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around May 17, 2024edition of 50Purchasable with gift card$14 USD or more
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Streaming + DownloadPre-order of Figure and Ground. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.Purchasable with gift cardreleases May 17, 2024
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Gaze Stabilization
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Similarity Principle
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Proximity Principle
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Nystagmus
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Common Region Principle
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Sky Trumpets
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Closure Principle
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Focal Point
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about
'Figure and Ground' is a dynamic, moving, and personal collection of electroacoustic solo guitar compositions born during a time when Scholz began struggling with debilitating vertigo episodes that would ultimately lead to a diagnosis of semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS).
More from Scott:
In 2019, I started having regular, debilitating vertigo episodes. I wrote some fragments of melancholy music to keep myself company during that period of unknowns, fears, and brain fog. By 2021, I learned that I had developed an inner ear disorder called semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), and that vertigo was one of its symptoms. Since then, I have been fortunate in finding medications and practices that are mostly keeping my symptoms at bay.
As I started to feel better, I took these fragments of music and transformed them through effects and granular synthesis, attempting to create a suite of pieces that emulate states of vertigo and dizziness through sound. Most immediately, they are symbolic of the thin veil that separates our normal perceptions of reality from distortions that can make it hard to do anything. More universally, I intend for them to represent the many kinds of physical and mental health struggles that most of us face at one time or another, and the inner strength that helps us to keep going, anyway. I hope you find this work as impactful to hear as it was for me to make. –Scott Scholz, 2024.
More from Scott:
In 2019, I started having regular, debilitating vertigo episodes. I wrote some fragments of melancholy music to keep myself company during that period of unknowns, fears, and brain fog. By 2021, I learned that I had developed an inner ear disorder called semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), and that vertigo was one of its symptoms. Since then, I have been fortunate in finding medications and practices that are mostly keeping my symptoms at bay.
As I started to feel better, I took these fragments of music and transformed them through effects and granular synthesis, attempting to create a suite of pieces that emulate states of vertigo and dizziness through sound. Most immediately, they are symbolic of the thin veil that separates our normal perceptions of reality from distortions that can make it hard to do anything. More universally, I intend for them to represent the many kinds of physical and mental health struggles that most of us face at one time or another, and the inner strength that helps us to keep going, anyway. I hope you find this work as impactful to hear as it was for me to make. –Scott Scholz, 2024.
credits
releases May 17, 2024
Scott Scholz - guitar, granular synthesis, effects, bass on Sky Trumpets
Ben Armstrong - drums on Sky Trumpets
Composed 2019-2024, recorded 2024.
Art/design by Abe Collins
Thanks: Heidi, Josh, Evan, Ben, Abe, Dylan
Dedicated to everyone suffering with SCDS
Scott Scholz - guitar, granular synthesis, effects, bass on Sky Trumpets
Ben Armstrong - drums on Sky Trumpets
Composed 2019-2024, recorded 2024.
Art/design by Abe Collins
Thanks: Heidi, Josh, Evan, Ben, Abe, Dylan
Dedicated to everyone suffering with SCDS
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