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.
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Abstract Love
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Bungalow
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