Summons

Sufi teacher and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan once noted that "tone continues, time expires" to express the omnipresence of sound as a sign of life. The more our inner sense is open, the more capable we become of hearing the voice of all things.

Summons is an exploration among the boundaries of our perception, the invocation of trance states, and the transportive nature of durational music. A verdant space offered as a field of experience. To echo a closer listen, "it will hopefully change and challenge your perception, but only if you listen to it at full volume, allowing you to see it completely."

Our creative work is often viewed as a mirror into the interiority of the artist, but "Summons" poses the question of what appears in this mirror when the artist has given their personal autonomy the channeling of divine creative transmission. Can one's hands claim composition when, in the invocation of a work, the artist becomes a translator between energy and space?

As zachary has become a student of tarot, alongside the qabalistic tree of life, both the album art and titles of these movements allude to cycles of time, illusions of everyday life, common source(s) of all existence, and our common fate. "Summons" thus honors a subliminal relationship with music; rather than a collection actively composed, this conception and development of loops is a transmission, observing and making audible a fragment of the voices within a much grander symphony of life.