In the summer of 2021, I was struggling with a major infestation of moles in our garden in California. Blue herons are voracious hunters of moles, but they did not visit often enough to make a significant dent in the problem. I had read somewhere that moles are sensitive to noise, and will flee from loud underground sounds. I also saw a funny Youtube video of someone attempting exactly that feat with a buried loudspeaker playing Celine Dion’s Greatest Hits.

I therefore thought it would be interesting to make some pieces that had less dynamic range (meaning the volume could be turned up louder), but also had a broad range of active frequencies. Each piece also uses a very limited palette of software synthesizers. These are quite active pieces and are at the edges of what I think of as ambient music, if not beyond it.

The moles hate it all, by the way, and keep well outside of a 20 foot radius of the speaker, which is buried about 2 feet down…

This EP was released to major streaming platforms on February 2nd 2022 - which was the day after Imbolc, or Candlemas for more conventional folk. Please note that the tracks offered here are all 128kbit MP3; the quality of tracks on most streaming platforms will be CD quality (i.e. 16 bit), so don't expect them to sound quite the same - the streaming ones will generally be higher quality.