Niklas Zimmer from Upland Music sent me Here, Now because he thought I would like it. He was so right. I've been listening to it repeatedly as a focusing agent, mental space-maker, and cleansing wind for a good month at this point.

This sparse piece was originally created as ambient environment for eco-political installation art by Helen Meyer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Niklas combines clear ringing tones of Tibetan prayer bowls, gongs, cymbals and other metal percussion into sharp, mind shining currents.

Niklas claims it can be used for relaxation, but I've found it best for a certain form of meditation. Not the kind of meditation where you surface and feel calmed and detached, but the kind where your mind is invigorated and sends shocks of "Now is the time!" through your body. The kind where consciousness coils close and ready to spring, its circuits humming with life and primed for action. The kind where when you open your eyes and view the world, you know what must be done and you do it.

I've been playing it prior to studio work, and the psychological power is wondrous. I can see the space emptying, the walls becoming transparent, the air purified and alive.

It's as if the moment, here, now, becomes hyper-real.

As the consciousness in, of and defining the moment, I become hyper-real.