Lid

'Lid' needed to be created for our own sanity.

Coming off a summer of rigid composition and performance without a real sense of how to let the music go, m and i started writing nothing and tearing down anything close to a formation of an idea.

If you feel locked in, you pull away.

Without structure m and i found room for more landscaped textures, focusing more on mood than articulate instrumentation. This opened up avenues of exploration to find new ways to work the sound out of the old tools. With this came the desire for more sounds and so we picked up other instruments.

This is where j enters. With little conversation she jumped in, and over the course of 2 weeks we got out whatever nihilistic flailings we had left; preparation. Then we discussed a flow of moods and concepts, with i haphazardly scribbling them down, connecting them with arrows and placing what he had in the center of the room for us all to see.

It was a map. We followed it, we got lost, found ourselves, and did it all over again. Lid is this exploration - instead of writing melodies and harmonies, we wrote destinations, and searched for the music between them. We embraced discovery.

In the heart of winter, 2016, we wrote-recorded-released-performed what is known as lid-0. We immediately moved on from the piece.

But when Head vs Heart approached us about being a part of a video series for their label, this gave us the opportunity to expand further. We've always desired a visual element, and with j's experience with film a new style of improvisation opened up to us.