One half of UK electronic music duo Team Doyobi, Alex Peverett now lives and works in Sendai, Japan. Where he continues to produce sound and pictures for other people including; Skam, Alku, Spezial Material, Tigerbeat6, Alienation, 12k, L-ne, Hobby Industries, Melange and anyone else who likes to listen.

This selection is loosely themed around the channeling of nature through being into creative form. All tracks are followed by quotes of varying relevance that like the combined layers of sound within each work will juxtapose with your impression of the sound to increase or diminish your appreciation. Every mp3 here was sourced using a variety of file sharing applications through a web of recommendations from friends and strangers alike. Thanks to whoever or however lead me to each one.


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may mp3 compilation

01. Philip K. Dick: If You Find This World Bad "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
02. Liquid Sky: Aliens Theme "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears." - Helen Keller
03. Dogs: Unknown Title "DOGS is leon barnett and richard harrison from england. they've been friends for five years and as a noisey duo they've performed many memorable concerts for themselves at least. unless they were too high to remember. they've played at royal festival hall and i.c.a.... all the pretentious art shitholes. they tricked the sponsors, who are never happy! DOGS are not fashionable! soon they'll be recording under the name VILE as well. there will be some mad styles represented here. look out for VILE label also FAKEY2RECORDS for the best in future hip-hop thru avant-garde rock n' jazz. peace, represent!" - Richard Harrison
04. Myriam Bessette: Nutation
05. Don Cherry & Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Tarot "One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem." - Jodorowsky
06. South African Artists: Djembe Drumming "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now." - African proverb
07. Moondog: Death When You Come To Me "A snowflake settled on my hand and said, as if in fear, I must be on my way before i turn into a tear." Louis T. Hardin
08. Alfred Wolfsohn: Vox Humana "The sound barrier has now been broken by jet aircraft. The highest mountain peak on earth, Mount Everest, has now been climbed. This once impossible achievement has now been done. The speed limit for running the mile has now been broken by Roger Bannister, who has run the distance in under 4 minutes. The ability of the eye to see has been greatly increased through the work of Dr. Bates and his students. Although, in the opinion of the orthodox eye specialists, the eye was unable to be strengthened in its function. Dr. Renshaw, the famous Gestalt psychologist from the University of Ohio, has, through his training, not only achieved results in the field of sight but also in the fields of taste and memory, which were previously considered to be absolutely impossible. The psychologist, Herrigel, described in his book "Zen and the art of archery", a Japanese technique, in which barriers have been overcome that were previously considered to be impossible. Only in the field of the human voice has no development occurred in the last few centuries. On the contrary, music experts have recently discovered that the composers of the past, wrote for a far wider range of voice than is the case today. How is it possible that only today the voice of the Peruvian singer, Yma Sumac, was able to arouse such an interest in a modern public? From these immemorial legends about the voice........the chanting of Aum, a word that can produce power through being sung in the forty different ways of pronouncing it. The famous English writer, Aldous Huxley, wrote in his novel "Brave New World": "….against the instrumental background, a more than human voice started to sing. Once out of the throat, then out of the head, now through high peeps like a flute, now loaded with yearning overtones. It sang easily from the deep accord just at the edge of musical sound to the trill of a batsound high above the high C, that in 1770 at the ducal opera of Parma to the astonishment of Mozart, Lukretia Ajugari as the only singer in history to give out such an utterance." - Alfred wolfsohn
09. David Bohm: Bohm02b "Classical physics says that reality is actually little particles that separate the world into its independent elements. Now I'm proposing the reverse, that the fundamental reality is the enfoldment and unfoldment, and these particles are abstractions from that. We could picture the electron not as a particle that exists continuously but as something coming in and going out and then coming in again. If these various condensations are close together, they approximate a track. The electron itself can never be separated from the whole of space, which is its ground. About the time I was looking into these questions, a BBC science program showed a device that illustrates these things very well. It consists of two concentric glass cylinders. Between them is a viscous fluid, such as glycerin. If a drop of insoluble ink is placed in the glycerin and the outer cylinder is turned slowly, the drop of dye will be drawn out into a thread. Eventually the thread gets so diffused it cannot be seen. At that moment there seems to be no order present at all. Yet if you slowly turn the cylinder backward, the glycerin draws back into its original form, and suddenly the ink drop is visible again. The ink had been enfolded into the glycerin, and it was unfolded again by the reverse turning." - David Bohm
10. Tom Dissevelt: Waltzing Matilda "What orbit of the planets has put you and me in this place, at this moment? Where time takes a breath, and we dance on the edge of our dreams?" - Anonymous
11. Various Artists: Bahnar "Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." - Anonymous
12. Miroque: Magical Jelly Fish "I love to play the piano and synthesizer and make music. I also like to work on my Cacha*mai label and often hang out in environments that have similar music taste as Cacha*mai. I also like to pay attention to nature and the seasons, but there are only a few in Tokyo. What I mean by this is that Tokyo has four seasons, but it hides the experience of real nature. I also like finding music or reading books from all over the world. I collect beautiful Japanese fabrics and love to shop for favorite clothes." - Miroque
13. Unknown Artist: Todaiji Temple Bells, Daibutsu "The Kamakura Daibutsu is a magnificent figure that represents Amida or more properly the Amidabutsu. The Amida is a Bodhisattva that is seen by followers of Pure Land sects to be sympathetic and compassionate beings who can help a person with great faith be reborn into a Pure Land where they could attain enlightenment. The Daibutsu symbolizes peace a need for meditation in life. The Statue is perceived to be sitting in perfect meditation never changing by the world around him. On the forehead of the Daibutsu there is a diamond-like shape on his forehead, which is meant to represent him enlightening the world" - Anonymous
14. Bruce Haack: Mudra "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Picasso
15. Don Buchla: In The Beginning Etude II "Uncertainty is the basis for a lot of my work. One always operates somewhere between the totally predictable and the totaly unpredictable and to me, "source of uncertainty" as we called it, was a way of aiding the composer. The predictabilities could be highly defined or you could have a sequence of totally random numbers. We had voltage control of the randomness and of the rate of change. In this way you could make patterns that were of more interest than patterns that are totally random. I would say that philosophically the prime difference in my approach from that of Robert Moog was that I separated sound and structure and he didn't. Control voltages were interchangeable with audio. The advantage of that is that he required only one kind of connector and that modules could serve more than one purpose. There were several drawbacks to that kind of general approach." - Don Buchla
16. Alan Watts: Readings From The Hindu Scriptures "Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together." Alan Watts
17. Kuta Quintet: Untitled
18. Gong: Riot 1969 (With Soft Machine in France) "[I]f you spend too long around people just like yourself, the windows steam up and turn into mirrors." - Robert Wyatt
19. Delia Derbyshire: Time To Go "Well, since Pythagoras in mythology. This is a sort of discipline. People think that composers sit there with their pen over the manuscript paper, and God sends his inspiration down the top of the pen onto the paper. Well, in some cases it seems perhaps they did; perhaps Mozart. But in other cases one has to impose a discipline, and the discipline of number is an excellent discipline. The Fibonacci sequence people have been using for centuries. Nature's numbers; the number of leaves on a fern, the number of seeds on a sunflower head, and how they are arranged... this is the Fibonacci sequence, used in art and architecture and music. Although when you hear it in music, it is not recognised." - Delia Derbyshire