This was an album I had all planned out, it was going to be Anode's debut release on the Palace of Lights record label. I'd done some preliminary recording and made extensive notes on how it would all fit together. However, when I sat down with Kerry to share my sketches he decided he was no longer interested in releasing it. I guess it didn't fit in with the aesthetic he envisioned for PoL, or it wasn't up to his standards.
www.palaceoflights.com

So I put my notes aside, shelved the recordings, and moved on to other projects.

Recently though I ran across those initial recordings and my production notes, as well as the cover image, and thought to myself, hmmm why not try resurrecting the project? It might be interesting, after all these years—forty-two to be precise—to see if it still holds together.

One change from the original plan: the last track on the first side of the LP, "Sight Gag," was going to be listed on the cover and label with a track length of 0:00, as a sort of "deaf joke." Since you can't really do that on a CD, I had to change it to 0:10 of silence instead—my second choice but the best I could do.

Original liner notes to "Music for the Deaf":
"Ears are non-optional sensors; they are always on. It is a form of deafness therefore－psychological deafness－that causes us to not even notice all of the sounds around us that we have unconsciously "tuned out."

Music, by focusing our attention on details and patterns in the world, can help us learn to control this unconscious filtering. This is especially true of electronic music, which by its very nature challenges the artificial boundaries between music and the rest of the sound spectrum.

The planned composition of music is an enterprise unique to a few mammalian species, yet within this small group, musical activity is nearly universal. Studies of brain function have shown that the appreciation of music arises in an entirely different area of the brain than language, an area deeper and more fundamental, and thus more emotional than intellectual.

By addressing our psychological deafness, by working to remove the filters that distance us from the world, we can learn to engage on a more emotional level, in a deeper and more fundamental level, with the environment around us to which we ultimately belong."

For reference, check out the track "Earlids" by The Tape-beatles:
anode1.bandcamp.com/track/earlids

Personnel:
Mishelle Renée - harp (track 1) (www.harpentertainment.com)
Robert Carlberg - synthesizers, organ, vibraphone, oystershell percussion, bells, voice and tapes

The release date below is about when it would have come out.