Joy is forever entwining a song with memory.
Joy is the curiosity of the patterns of a shell.
Joy is losing sense of self in the rhythm of a drum beat.
Joy is looking back to see how far you’ve come.
Joy is a beautiful droning sound, tying you to the present.
Joy is irreverent NPC dialogue in 90s video game.
Joy is observing a friend transmute emotion into sound through their voice or instrument.
Joy is listening to a song for the first time and realizing it’s sampled in another song you’ve heard many times.
Joy is looking out the window of the plane after a good holiday, knowing you’re forever changed, and that you get to sleep in your own bed tonight.
Joy is quiet and small sometimes, but still good.
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A riff on Jon Hassell's Fourth World series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that didn't exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that could exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.
A riff on Jon Hassell's Fourth World series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that didn't exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that could exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.