The Weather Indoors

Portland, OR-based multimedia artist William Selman returns to Mysteries of the Deep with his third album for the label. Drawing on influences such as David Toop, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elizabeth Waldo, and David Behrman, The Weather Indoors melds live and synthesized instrumentation, field recordings, and digital processing in a new, more melodic and approachable direction.

Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold's concept of inversion, this widescreen staging cuts to the core of the project: the way human beings aestheticize their built surroundings to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.

A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog — neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.