circumjacence

What is This?

Born in the 1990’s, Circumjacence began as the manifestation of a personal quest to create immersive musical / auditory environments. Inspiration was often born of sublime juxtapositions: reading journal articles about two dimensional Turing machines amidst the calls of snow geese gathering for winter, earbuds delivering taped 6581 soundtracks from the Commodore demo scene while canoing through tributaries of the Chesapeake bay, or listening to the voices between stations on an AM radio while reading Tolkien.

Over time the focus of Circumjacence has enlarged in focus to include more mundane juxtapositions: the relationships between being a music fan and a music producer, the interface between the visual arts, and the worlds of audio and music, the ways in which the Creative Commons and netlabel scene are empowering musicians, and creating new ways for music to recapture its communal nature.

In a practical sense, with this Web site I hope to do the following:

• Provide a place to document my own musical and auditory explorations
• Provide a place to document my own exploration of photography
• Highlight some of my favorite music from the Creative Commons / Netlabel community - primarily (but not exclusively) electronic forms: ambient, downtempo, IDM, psy-trance, etc.

All music linked to from this site is released under a Creative Commons license, and may be freely downloaded and shared (provided certain guidelines are followed). For more information about the Creative Commons, see: http://www.creativecommons.org/

Who is Responsible?

Eric Weik aka “Circumjacence”: Some guy who has spent the past two decades making music with home-brew mixers, cassette decks, home-brew C64 sequencers, PVC pipe, Kmart keyboards, circuit bent toys, trackers, guitars, accordions, harps, a pile of hardware synths (of various vintages), and most recently - Ableton Live.

Owen Weik aka “the Deep Sea”: A young feller (currently 7) who loves exploring new music, and making music at the piano and from found sounds.