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The lyrics to "Ways to Hear Each Other" came verbatim from an online gathering of musicians, partly a memorial for Diane Moser, partly a search for ways to make music together when we're apart, as during the year of Covid-19. I hope the song works as a metaphor of human pain and connection.

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Ways to hear each other // I hear an echo/I don't think it's my fault/One after another/I've been overwhelmed // The speed of light/The speed of sound/Breathing together/Filling in the latency // Drawing circles/Drawing circles on the floor/Talk about lines/Talk about lines for hours // I love this/I love that/Not able to hear/I can hear it/I can hear it/It's super faint/I have very low signal/I hear it, but it's coming from you/I don't have it either/I don't think it's my fault/I hear an echo/I can hear it/I can hear it/I've been overwhelmed/It's still going to depend/I don't think it's my fault // Both, and something else/Independent loops/Less tolerance for error/Sloppy downbeats/Animation, fermatas, pads, pods/Filling in the latency/Less tolerance for error/Independent loops // This conversation about irregularities/We think so much/I can't say I particularly enjoy it/It's so painful/It will end/But it will end so slowly // The use of lullabies/Inside a book of birds/The absence of sound/The absence of sound is deafening // Yes, the laugh // I hear an echo/I don't think it's my fault/I've been overwhelmed/One after another // Are you not starting for an hour?/Shall I go away and come back in an hour?

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from Music for the Exploration of Elusive Phenomena, released June 18, 2021
Julian Gerstin, music, lyrics, percussion, piano, vocal
Carlene Raper, vocal

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Julian Gerstin Brattleboro, Vermont

Julian is a percussionist and composer whose music reflects his experience with musicians in and from Cuba, Martinique, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Bulgaria, and Egypt as well as jazz from trad New Orleans to experimental.

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