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World Premiere of David Karsten Daniels' "The Four Immeasurable Minds" | Visual projections by Dollar Ben | LIVE | May 24th 2010 @ Ware : Wolf : Haus | album release coming Fall 2014

The Four Immeasurable Minds is the newest of works from songwriter/composer David Karsten Daniels. Its title refers to a series of four Buddhist virtues (or 'sublime attitudes') and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. Daniels specifies each virtue (Love, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity) as a title for one of the work's four movements. Intended as an antidote to negative mental states and an increasingly busy and anxious modern world, the piece presents itself as a collection of droning guitars, endlessly looping church organs, wordless vocals and toy flutes that coalesce and detach over the work's near 40 minutes. Such elegiac and looping tones reflect Daniels interest in Native American notions of circular time, while the field recordings of a father/son nature walk document the Nowness of parenting (attending to your child's ant bites and stray urine while trying to explain the meaning of the color blue).