This Audio book contains a composer's commentary and full, mind-altering, reality bending album experience of 'Nowhere Land' by Australian composer and performer, Ash Morse. Here you will experience a deeper dive into the mind of the author/composer and the rich, existential concepts he is portraying.
The music you will hear, like the story being told, is unsettlingly untethered at first, then gloriously grand, and at times torturously restrained, following the life of a character perpetually trapped inside a powerful reality simulator called The Dream Machine - one of many allegories for the pervasive, hidden, intangible aspects of existence that are too complex and difficult to speak about directly. This character's epic, self-illuminating voyage from captivity to liberation is representative of the deep struggles that many of us face in life - feeling powerlessly trapped in a system of needless suffering, yearning for freedom and grasping at hope that there is something beyond. It is a story of profound isolation and pain but also of triumph, of self-discovery and above all, a story that gestures toward the role and reason for all that we endure in existence in the corporeal absence of an all-loving, all powerful, interventionist creator. Though this introduction is not aiming to be prescriptive, knowing even this small part of the back story will help to orient you within Nowhere Land and give you a lens through which to make sense of what is unfolding before you.
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