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Dr Sounds: Spacey ambient/dark new age.


Dr Sounds is Alexander Forselius, a Romanian born artist, creating spacey ambient/dark new age tracks using mostly free software packages. He entered the music market on the internet by the famous download.com music store where he got over 800 downloads on his top track, "Chronomics".

The artist was earlier this year featured on the Higher-music blog for his excellent tracks "Solid Structures" and "Clarity of soundscape". JS. Epperson, of a leading American university for studies on healing music research said, "the tracks hold a very impressive minimalism style, but keep the clarity intact".

The artist has also been featured on the Swedish radio "Total Normal", a independent mini radio station, aiming to give people with mental health conditions a voice in a very hard world.

Alex has Aspergers Syndrome and feels that he is a little different in thinking and experiencing the whole world. "I think my brain values mathematics and logic before feelings, and this is one of the reasons why its easy for me to to get caught out by the emotional, social oriented human life society. Therefore I mostly feel integrated with the computer, and feel a deep relationship with it.

With my music, I describe the experience of flying through several worlds, changing shapes and having another life context. In my childhood, I had many dreams about traveling through worlds, I've drawn inspiration from TV, memories from my early childhood (which was in a childrens home in Romania, and the poverty that surrounded me) and the need to get instant satisfaction for intellectual stimulation, trying to avoid situations where I'm must allocate space for other people.

My music is new age and ambient style, and I think is an expression of my life experiences so far, similar to how Michael Jackson retold his childhood experiences in his hits. The difference being that while pop music mostly sing about their expressions, I've referenced them as a kind of unique, unnatural sound structure, implemented together within a common ambient scale.

I think my music, in contrast to pop music and other music, requires more interaction with the listener, because new age music fits well in particular environments, planetariums, floating meditation, fitness centers,etc.

Having unique personal feelings, a brain that focus on logic every time conflicts with the illogical social world, my experiences in childhood and autistic experience of the unorganized social world, is transmuted to unique, illustrative, ambient soundtracks that don't follow a given musical genre."

For more on Alex please go to his website.

  Dr Sounds

[Abstract Love by Dr Sounds]

Abstract Love


[Bungalow by Dr Sounds]

Bungalow



Dr Sounds lives in Lidkoping, Sweden.

Tagged as: Ambient, New Age, Massage, Space Music, Yoga.


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