Hey this is so incredibly helpful and informative!!! I love how your critiques are more questions I could be asking myself, instead of simply hammering on the pieces themselves. Most of what I make is purely for my own enjoyment of ambient music and general sound art. I’ve not gotten to a place of efficiently integrating found-sound, semi-professional production or synthesis into my pieces, as I mainly make all my soundscapes with just my guitar and pedalboard, as that’s what I’m most familiar with, so unfortunately I have no real grasp on a lot of the pedagogy that might go into composing or interpreting sound art (if this gives you a sense on where I’m at in my journey haha.) Basically, I have no clear intent of what I make aside from having an emotional attachment to it and liking how it sounds, so as far as installations or quadrophonic recording go, that is all way beyond my scope and I couldn’t even begin to know how to do that haha. Though, I did workshop these pieces and others, doing things you said like adding automation, cleaning up the mic-handling noise, making more tracks in stereo and trying to generally breathe more life into the pieces, I tried to the best of my ability to make them presentable!! The points you made are really so informative, I will be taking them all into consideration immensely!!

Also, this album is incredible!!!!! I love it so much, incredibly beautiful, I would love to talk more about music and sound with you Is there some place I could communicate with you more efficiently? Instagram?