These are selected pieces from my solo releases, Sheena Dham 1.0 and Familiarity Heuristic. They represent my songwriting and ambient synthesized fever dream production style.
Recorded with affected electric guitar, bass, drums, Elektron Digitakt, Moog Mother-32, Moog The One, Moog Grandmother, VCV Rack, treated vocals, TE OP1, field recordings.
Sheena Dham 1.0 was co-produced with Raj Paul Ghusar.
Familiarity Heuristic was produced from a grant from Women's Audio Mission in San Francisco.
To rematriate the production process for Familiarity Heuristic, I worked with an all-femme audio/mixing/mastering engineer team and album artwork artist. This was a healing practice; working with this coven helped me to reframe two decades of masculine/competitive conditioning (in both a Western classical and vernacular music context). I wanted to model for myself and others that this should normalized, although currently less than 5% of studio engineers are women.
Engineering and mixing by Sammie Dee Wallinga, Ana Dunham. Mastering by Jessica Thompson. Released by Psychic Eye Records.
