ANIMAL SOUNDS

THE ADVENTURE BEGINS OCTOBER 20​
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Vol. I - OCTOBER 20
Vol. II - OCTOBER 21
Vol. III - OCTOBER 22
Animal Sounds is my second full-length album and my first since moving to Arizona in 2020 to pursue a Master’s in Ethnomusicology after COVID permanently upended the world I thought I knew. Inspired by my studies at ASU, it’s framed as a satirical “field recording,” with fake researchers documenting the “authentic music of urban Downtown Phoenix” between 2020–2024. In truth, the recordings are my own songs and improvised skits—each imagined as something these researchers stumbled upon by chance.

That conceit mirrors the paradox of Ethnomusicology itself: tradition and culture are living and changing. The moment you try to capture an image of them, they’ve already become something different. The problem is the same in all fields of study: in Physics, particles once thought discrete, like photons and electrons, were discovered to also behave like flowing waves, only appearing static when observed.

All knowledge shares this flaw: we’re grains of sand trying to describe the ocean. We're  a tiny part of a vast living universe. The worst thing any of us can do is try to shut down someone else's perspective on this universe, their voice, or their way of living life. The best we can do is to contribute our own small voice to the vast universal chorus, and hope that Lough wins out in the end. ; )
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ANIMAL SOUNDS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC MOOD BOARD
Each song title below is linked to a Wikipedia page related to a place, event, tradition, or idea that played a part in inspiring the music of Animal Sounds​.
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