Released: June 2009

1 Track - 46:00

Beyond The Golden Light is an ambient work of vision and sonic depth.  Listeners will discover a recording with much to offer on multiple levels; aesthetic, conceptual and practical.

The piece is anchored by haunting acoustic guitar floating in a spacious suspension of textures generated by additional acoustic and electric guitar treatments.  Conceptualized as a journey into and through consciousness, Beyond The Golden Light is a carefully considered sonic analogy that captures the essence of things not easily spoken about. Musical and textural elements dance between foreground and background, appearing and disappearing like objects in our own awareness,  gradually revealing the mysterious, limitless context in which it exists.

This recording is suitable for a number of different uses from active listening, to meditation, to sleep enhancement.  Try leaving it on all night and see how you feel in the morning.  Beyond The Golden Light will also be offered by Monroe Products as a Hemi-Sync® embedded Metamusic title.  Release is scheduled for the fall of 2009, don't miss it!

Performed and recorded by Matthew Sigmon.  Cover photography by Julie B. Anderson.

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When I set out to record the piece, I had the concept of weightlessness in mind, both the sort that occurs in the absence of gravity as well as the non-corporeal variety one can experience using inner senses.  I tried to look at it from both physical and non-physical perspectives since ultimately both are unified in consciousness and represent important aspects of what we are.  For instance, in a physically weightless environment one may experience ascent, descent, hovering, turning, tumbling, etc.  The list of non-physical correlations are more broad and arbitrary - freedom, peace, equilibrium, wonder, as well as mystery, imbalance and uncertainty to name only a few.

I made a concerted effort not to allow the piece to become overly melodic, but rather to try and provide melodic components that could be followed and focused on or allowed to fade into the background.  I also tried to represent the shadow aspects of experience, those things we feel when we encounter the unknown.  Space, whether inner or outer, is limitless, and therefore ultimately undefinable. "Emptiness" can initially appear to be negative in the strictest sense, that is, an absence rather than a presence, but there's more to it than that.

The big game is that non-existence doesn't exist by virtue of its own definition, so ultimately one is immersed in unending presence.  Recognizing endless, all-encompassing presence is a tremendously subtle, powerful affirmation.  Without trying to be too literal about that conclusion, my goal was to allow it to make itself known over the course of the composition.

-Matt

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