SEAMAN & STEPHEN VITIELLO, BILL - The Clear Distance

"Bill Seaman and Stephen Vitiello share an interest in texture, harmony, and space. On The Clear Distance they cast their ears outward, seeking to trace parallel lines and through doing so create a music that unfolds with an effortless sense of perpetuity and patience. This is a music of landscape, of lush tints and reductive hues. It is a music of deeply evocative images that materialize from within. From Bill Seaman: "I got a note from Stephen. As the consummate archiver he had inherited a tape of an interview with me in 1985 done with Kevin Concannon, in particular about my music production. He points out that in it I mention 'a device called a digital delay' that I had been exploring. A Deltalab Effectron II Digital Delay, which let you make little short one second loops and manually inject other sounds among other things -- nice kind of kluge aesthetic. We knew each other through Electronic Arts Intermix where Stephen worked for some time . . . I wrote Stephen a note and asked '