Darren Kearns – Optimal Being
“The following is not intended as an introduction to philosophy or subjective idealism, but instead, may be construed as an earnest attempt by a musician to induce some harmony in a world that unfortunately, is too often quite discordant and dissonant. We are rapidly heading towards a crossroads of our existence on this sphere hurtling through the cosmos. We now have, through different manifestations of our technological prowess, devised many wonderful and intriguing innovations which have benefited mankind greatly. We have also developed the capacity to utterly destroy ourselves. And it’s just not that we may blow ourselves up with nuclear warfare, or destroy our invaluable natural resources through poor conservation, or strangle ourselves with over-population, or demolish the soil and its by-products with improperly understood chemicals and pesticides. Beyond all these “symptoms” of the “disease” and at the root of most of the tension in the world, is in the way which we envisage and conceive ourselves as human beings, of our individual existence and identity. We suffer from a false and distorted sense of our own existence as living organisms.”
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A1 Seascapes
A2 Nature
A3 Nightscapes
B1 Technology
B2 Is That You Hal?
B3 Optimism
B4 Chromatoscopics
Conceived, Written, Performed By Darren Kearns
Special Thanks To: Jodi Serota, Craig McCloskey, Ralph Chiodo, Ambience, Ray, Stephan, Danny And WXPN
Additional Thanks To Carl Lee For Rendering Invaluable Technical Assistance While Operating On A Broken Shoestring Economic Budget
Engineering & Mixing — Darren Kearns
Recording Assistance — Jodi Serota. Dan Kearns. Dan Gutgasell
Technical Consultant — Carl Lee
Producer — Darren Kearns
Executive Producer – Gino Wong
Album Cover — Stephen Spera
INSTRUMENTS: ARP Quadra, ARP Odyssey, ARP Axxe, ARP Omni, Yamaha Cs-5, Yamaha Piano, Korg Synthesizer, Polyphonic Moog, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Mustang, Gibson Es-175, Ovation Acoustic